Chapter 1. Rising Participation and Declining Democracy

Walker, Edward T.; McQuarrie, Michael; Lee, Caroline W.

doi:10.18574/nyu/9781479847273.003.0001

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“…As a follow‐up, it would be necessary to regularly monitor the process put in place and facilitate further stakeholder dialogue. From a research perspective, investigating recent insights from policy and planning sciences, including Public Participation, would also be very valuable (Innes and Booher 2004; Walker, McQuarrie, and Lee 2015).…”

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Toward a Restricted Tolerance of Street Vending of Food in Hanoi Districts: The Role of Stakeholder Dialogue

Lộc

Moustier

2016

World Food Policy

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Toward a Restricted Tolerance of Street Vending of Food in Hanoi Districts: The Role of Stakeholder Dialogue

Lộc

Moustier

2016

World Food Policy

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“…Intégrant parfois une démarche d'enquête de sciences sociales ou procédant de manière plus intuitive en produisant l'information selon des procédés artistes, les innovations portent notamment sur les supports imaginés pour rendre compte de ces expériences : cartographies, expositions itinérantes, clips vidéos, etc. Elles décrivent un idéal participationniste, auquel s'associent potentiellement des enjeux politiques de vie démocratique (Walker, McQuarrie et Lee, 2015 ;Politix, 2006 ;Blondiaux, 2008), et partagent un même « air de famille » avec des initiatives proches qu'on trouve déjà en matière urbaine (Arab, Özdirlik et Vivant, 2016 ;Deviste et Ouvrard, 2015). À une nuance près toutefois : ce qui semble importer n'est pas seulement de permettre à des résidents d'une cité ou d'un quartier de participer, mais de rendre publique cette participation de manière à pouvoir saisir des publics dont le concernement est jugé stratégique (passants, autorités administratives, etc.).…”

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Les formes d’innovation publique par le design : un essai de cartographie

Weller¹,

Pallez²

2017

Sciences Du Design

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Sciences du Design-05-Mai 2017 Résumé Depuis une dizaine d'années, les services publics introduisent des démarches d'innovation d'un genre inédit, rompant formellement avec les réformes managériales jusqu'alors déployées. Si les formes concrètes que peuvent prendre ces initiatives semblent variées, elles n'en investissent pas moins des techniques partageant un même air de famille et se placent volontiers sous la bannière du « design de service ». Mais selon quelles modalités ? Sur la base de quelles problématiques ? Avec quelles visées et quel contenu ? Dans le cadre d'un projet ANR de recherche entièrement consacré à ces nouvelles formes d'innovation publique (FIP), les auteurs de cet article se proposent de brosser à grands traits les contours de ce paysage inédit. En recensant plus de 200 cas menés depuis les dix dernières années dans des institutions publiques très diverses, l'enjeu est ici de fournir aux lecteurs un descriptif du phénomène d'émergence de ces innovations « par le design », depuis lequel quatre types de FIP sont mises en évidence.

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“…Community mutual aid systems have been replaced by government funded, professional social service programs that mandate “maximum feasible citizen participation” (Walker et al. ). Intermediate institutions were once a means through which “community” could be created and enacted.…”

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“…Community emergency services have been replaced by highly trained, certified emergency response systems (Russo 2001:113-14). Community mutual aid systems have been replaced by government funded, professional social service programs that mandate "maximum feasible citizen participation" (Walker et al 2015). Intermediate institutions were once a means through which "community" could be created and enacted.…”

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The Collapse of Intermediate Structures?

Milofsky

Harris

2017

City & Community

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How can we explain the rise of President Trump and the attraction of his campaign behavior before and since he took office? We argue here that the collapse of "intermediate structures" has been a key factor; that the associations and groups which are building blocks of pluralistic politics have been eroded to such an extent that Trump's personality politics have been able to take over the political stage.Sustainable democracies require a layer of institutions situated between the realms of the state, on the one hand, and individuals and families, on the other. These are "intermediate structures" and they are conduits for citizen participation and a bulwark against the formation of "mass" societies in which political leaders and the states they govern can directly interact with citizens and control them ideologically. In the last century, such direct connection between states and citizens, which can happen as intermediate structures dissolve, was blamed for the emergence and domination of charismatic, authoritarian leaders.We present evidence here that erosion of intermediate structures has indeed been taking place over recent decades and that the rise to power of Donald Trump is one outcome of that erosion. When intermediate structures collapse, politicians and citizens can impact directly on one another's behavior and viewpoints, without the leavening factor provided by the associations of civil society. THE CONCEPT OF INTERMEDIATE STRUCTURESThe idea of "intermediate structures" is found-with variations in terminology-in the work of many scholars. Broadly, they argue that sustainable democracies require a layer of institutions situated between the realms of the state, on the one hand, and the private sphere of individual citizens, on the other. Intermediate structures allow citizens to compete with other groups and to communicate their desires and needs upward in the governance system while receiving political information downward from political leaders. This participation serves as a bulwark against the formation of "mass" societies in which states directly interact with, and ideologically control, citizens, even inducing them to ignore their own self-interests. Kornhauser (1959), drawing on Durkheim's concept of "secondary institutions" (1958:62-3), conceptualized intermediate structures as including the workplace and

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Chapter 1. Rising Participation and Declining Democracy

Cited by 39 publications

References 4 publications

Toward a Restricted Tolerance of Street Vending of Food in Hanoi Districts: The Role of Stakeholder Dialogue

Toward a Restricted Tolerance of Street Vending of Food in Hanoi Districts: The Role of Stakeholder Dialogue

Les formes d’innovation publique par le design : un essai de cartographie

The Collapse of Intermediate Structures?

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