ABSTRACT
Reclaiming Participatory Governance offers empirical and theoretical perspectives on how the relationship between social movements and state institutions is emerging and developing through new modes of participatory governance.
One of the most interesting political developments of the past decade has been the adoption by social movements of strategies seeking to change political institutions through participatory governance. These strategies have flourished in a variety of contexts, from anti-austerity and pro-social justice protests in Spain, to movements demanding climate transition and race equality in the UK and the USA, to constitutional reforms in Belgium and Iceland. The chief ambition and challenge of these new forms of participatory governance is to institutionalise the prefigurative politics and social justice values that inspired them in the first place, by mobilising the bureaucracy to respond to their claims for reforms and rights. The authors of this volume assess how participatory governance is being transformed and explore the impact of such changes, providing timely critical reflections on: the constraints imposed by cultural, economic and political power relations on these new empowered participatory spaces; the potential of this new "wave" of participatory democracy to reimagine the relationship between citizens and traditional institutions towards more radical democratic renewal; where and how these new democratisation efforts sit within the representative state; and how tensions between the different demands of lay citizens, organised civil society and public officials are being managed.
This book will be an important resource for students and academics in political science, public administration and social policy, as well as activists, practitioners and policymakers interested in supporting innovative engagement for deeper social transformation.
Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section 1|70 pages
Conceptualising Democracy-Driven Governance
chapter 2|16 pages
Challenging the “Rules of the Game”
chapter 4|16 pages
Can Local Participation Disrupt Neoliberalism?
chapter 5|20 pages
The Democratic Multiverse
part Section 2|102 pages
Tracing the Emergence of Democracy-Driven Governance
chapter 6|15 pages
Towards Participatory Transition Governance
chapter 7|16 pages
“Be Like Water”
chapter 8|16 pages
Whose and What Right to the City?
chapter 9|18 pages
De-POLARising Civic Participation?
chapter 10|16 pages
Collective Candidacies and Mandates in Brazil
part Section 3|86 pages
Assessing the Challenges to Projects of Radical Reform
chapter 12|18 pages
Expanding Participatory Governance through Digital Platforms?
chapter 13|16 pages
The Embeddedness of Public-Common Institutions
chapter 14|17 pages
How Can Democracy-Driven Governance Turn into Technopopulism?
chapter 15|17 pages
Surfing Disappointment
chapter 16|16 pages
Institutionalising Participation from Below
part Section 4|10 pages
Conclusion