Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/7555
Title: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research: September 2010
Contributor(s): Silver, Hilary (author); Scott, Alan  (author)orcid ; Kazepove, Yuri (author)
Publication Date: 2010
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/7555
Abstract: Participation is a popular buzzword in contemporary urban studies, cropping up across the political spectrum. The direct involvement of ordinary citizens in the initiation, formulation, implementation and monitoring of public policy is increasing throughout the world. Many international organizations and social scientists present 'democratization' or inclusionary participation as an unalloyed good, countering concern about declining social capital, heavy-handed bureaucracy, government inefficiency and social exclusion. Yet their conceptions of democracy often diverge, giving rise to debate about the ideal form of citizen participation in self-government. Traditional representative democracy, in which elections aggregate preferences, interests and votes, has fallen into disfavour. As the contributions that follow illustrate, this is associated with a renaissance of direct citizen participation in politics and governance at the local level. In contrast to the technocratic and output-oriented notion of 'good governance', many see participatory, direct or deliberative democracy as an attractive and less elitist basis for political legitimation sitting alongside traditional democratic representation. This symposium examines empirical cases of inclusionary participation of 'ordinary' residents from cities throughout the world.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 34(3), p. 453-724
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1468-2427
0309-1317
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 160810 Urban Sociology and Community Studies
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 940201 Civics and Citizenship
HERDC Category Description: C6 Editorship of a Scholarly Journal
Publisher/associated links: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijur.2010.34.issue-3/issuetoc
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