Butzlaff, Felix. 2022. Consenting Participation? How Demands for Citizen Participation and Expert-Led Decision-Making Are Reconciled in Local Democracy. Political Studies Review.
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The rising participatory demands of citizens have been addressed with a variety of democratic innovations. However, increasing demands for democratization have been accompanied by a parallel rise in scepticism and doubt about the capabilities of representative democracies to ensure policy efficacy. I seek to address this democratic ambivalence by focusing on the demands for citizen participation in the context of local democracy. In a series of qualitative interviews, and using Vienna’s Seestadt Aspern, Europe’s biggest city development project, as an illustration, I examine (a) bottom-up and top-down understandings of democracy and participation among administration, city-planners and citizens and (b) strategies to reconcile inconsistent expectations of participation. I show that conflicting understandings of participation are dealt with in different settings and that, despite a public commitment to democratic participation, citizens, city-planners and administration alike expect a democratically concealed yet controlled management process allegedly ensuring more efficacious policy decisions.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Journal article |
Journal | Political Studies Review |
Citation Index | SSCI |
Language | English |
Title | Consenting Participation? How Demands for Citizen Participation and Expert-Led Decision-Making Are Reconciled in Local Democracy |
Year | 2022 |
Reviewed? | Y |
URL | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14789299221091884 |
DOI | 10.1177/14789299221091884 |
Open Access | Y |
Open Access Link | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14789299221091884 |
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- Butzlaff, Felix (Details)
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- Institute for Social Change and Sustainability IN (Details)
- Research areas (ÖSTAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 5118 Political science (Details)
- 5402 General sociology (Details)
- 5413 Sociological methods (Details)