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The increased protection of children by monitoring them is said to be a central characteristic of modern childhood. In the field of mobility, this aspect of modern childhood is reflected in the fact that children's everyday mobility is to a great extent kept under surveillance, e.g. by parents, kindergarten or school employees and through general traffic regulation. In this article, we investigate the surveillance of children's mobility -primarily bicycling, walking and car usage -from three different angles. In the first, we investigate the general power relations in mobile practice that add to the surveillance and restriction of children's mobility. In the second, we illustrate how parents monitor children's mobility by chauffeuring them. In the third, we look into how parents remote control children's mobility by means of behavioural restrictions and technology. By using statistical material and qualitative interviews, we illustrate how parents perceive and perform their own surveillance of children's mobility. In addition, we comment on how children perceive their monitored mobility and how they cope with it. Finally, we reflect on the differences in parental mobile monitoring and relate this to welfare and socio-economic structures in the families. Rationalities in contemporary mobilityThis article contributes to the expanding field of the sociology of mobility and it highlights the mobility related norms, practices and perspectives of a very distinct group, namely that of families. It elaborates on children's and parents' views on traffic and mobility from a surveillance perspective and includes insights from the new childhood paradigm within the sociology of childhood (James, 1998; Prout and James, 1990). In spite of the fact that children's mobility accounts for around 20% of the daily travelling population in the EU (EU, 2000), children's perspectives are often left out in the general mobility oriented sociological literature (for instance in Bauman, 2000; Beckman, 2001b;Castells, 1996;Jensen, 2001;Scheller, 2002;Shove, 2002;Urry, 2000).Even though mankind has always been mobile, the quintessential aspect in contemporary societies is that the consequences of mobility thoroughly influence our daily lives, local, national and global politics, as well as our environments and the welfare of human beings. Political and scientific discussions are often focussed on the environmental side effects of increased car-use. Welfare aspects of how mobility influence and shape people's every day life and how side

Governance networks are often praised for their contribution to making public governance and spatial planning more effective. However, the democratic performance of governance networks is heavily disputed. In order to make a more precise assessment of the democratic quality of governance networks, we need to develop normative criteria that permit us to measure the democratic quality of governance networks on different dimensions. Such criteria are developed and brought together in our model for the democratic anchorage of governance networks. This article aims to improve the democratic anchorage model in two different ways: by offering operational definitions of the basic dimensions of the model and by demonstrating how the assessment criteria can be applied in an empirical case study of a long-lasting, multilevel governance network involved in the recent decision to build a bridge between Denmark and Germany. The democratic anchorage model helps to assess the democratic performance of specific governance networks and to gain knowledge about the critical factors determining their degree of democratic anchorage. Such knowledge is crucial for developing proactive strategies for enhancing the democratic performance of specific governance networks.Trine Fotel is a post-doctoral researcher at Roskilde University, Denmark. She has published several articles on urban planning, mobility and local democracy. She is currently participating in a large research project on network governance in the new Danish regions. She is a member

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