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Quarta, Alessandra; Vercellone, A

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“…Among these partnerships, one form that has prevailed is that of policies that enable groups of citizens to self-manage public goods and services. Some of these policies, especially those concerning the management of vacant urban spaces and buildings, are inspired by the notion of the common 1 (Quarta and Vercellone, 2021), such as the Regulation for the Care and Regeneration of Urban Commons adopted by Bologna City Council in 2014. Other policies facilitate housing cooperatives (Ferreri and Vidal, 2022), energy communities (Becker et al, 2017) and childcare cooperatives (Kussy et al, 2022).…”

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The democratising capacity of new municipalism: beyond direct democracy in public–common partnerships

Bianchi

2024

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New municipalism, in its endeavour to democratise urban politics and policy, employs innovative strategies including public–common partnerships, which seek to support citizens in self-managing public goods and services. Proponents of new municipalism claim that these partnerships have a democratising capacity, as self-management is seen as an expression of direct democracy. In this article we examine this democratising capacity. By adopting an abductive methodology, the article analyses a case of a public–common partnership, the Citizen Assets programme promoted by Barcelona en Comú in Barcelona, Spain. The research findings show that the Citizen Assets programme does have a democratising capacity. However, democratisation is not achieved exclusively through self-management, which itself needs to be democratised, but by integrating different modalities of democratisation into the policy process, namely co-production and democratic control. Theorising this integration as a ‘non-appropriable’ form of policy making, the article makes an original contribution to research on democratisation in the context of a specific new municipalism-inspired policy programme.

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The democratising capacity of new municipalism: beyond direct democracy in public–common partnerships

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2024

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Abstract: The piece introduces the special issue, famining it within the context of the European Horizon 2020 Project “Generative European Commons Living Lab”.

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