Participatory Democracy Revisited

Pateman, Carole

doi:10.1017/s1537592711004877

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“…Following the participatory conception of democracy, democracy should affect human development through the empowerment of lay citizens and civic associations (Barber 1988;Benelo & Roussopoulos 1971;Christoforou 2010;Fung & Wright 2003;Kawachi 2001;Macpherson 1977;Mansbridge 1983;Pateman 1976Pateman , 2012Putnam 1993). One avenue of empowerment is a free media.…”

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Electoral Democracy and Human Development

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Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) is a new approach to the conceptualization and measurement of democracy. It is co-hosted by the University of Gothenburg and University of Notre Dame. With a V-Dem Institute at University of Gothenburg that comprises almost ten staff members, and a project team across the world with four Principal Investigators, fifteen Project Managers, 30+ Regional Managers, 170 Country Coordinators, Research Assistants, and 2,500 Country Experts, the V-Dem project is one of the largest-ever social science research-oriented data collection programs.Please address comments and/or queries for information to: We draw on the new Varieties of Democracy dataset, which provides a highly differentiated set of democracy indicators, and a new collection of mortality data compiled by the Gapminder project. With these tools, we are able to conduct panel analyses that include most (semi-)sovereign countries from 1900 to the present -a much more extensive sample than has ever been mustered for this particular research question. We find that composite indices such as Polity have a tenuous relationship to human development, while indices focused on the electoral component of democracy yield a highly robust relationship.3

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“…As the liberal democratic tradition has been strained under increasing levels of partisan de-alignment and voter apathy, so scholars have renewed interest in a more "participatory" forms of democratic practice (Pateman 1970). If one creates a more participatory environment, people will be more prepared for the tasks of self-government.…”

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Trends in Voter Surveillance in Western Societies: Privacy Intrusions and Democratic Implications

Bennett

2015

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This paper surveys the various voter surveillance practices recently observed in democratic states and discusses the broad implications for privacy and democracy. Four broad trends are discussed: the move from voter management databases to integrated voter management platforms; the shift from mass-messaging to micro-targeting employing personal data from commercial data brokerage firms; the analysis of social media and the social graph; and the decentralization of data to local campaigns through mobile applications. The de-alignment of the electorate in most Western societies has placed pressures on parties to target voters outside their traditional bases, and to find new, cheaper, and potentially more intrusive, ways to influence their political behavior. This paper builds on previous research to consider the theoretical tensions between concerns for excessive surveillance, and the broad democratic responsibility of parties to mobilize voters and increase political engagement. These issues have been insufficiently studied in the surveillance literature. They are not just confined to the privacy of the individual voter, but relate to broader dynamics in democratic politics.

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“…Collaborative governance is interpreted and practiced in a variety of ways [3][4][5][6][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. As Emerson et al note, despite the increasing use of the term 'collaborative governance' in public administration literature, its definition remains 'amorphous and its use inconsistent' ( [4], p. 1).…”

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“…The experience of Porto Alegre suggests the long-term value and feasibility of implementing DCG in relation to matters that typically are viewed as the province of experts ( [20], p. 10). This is especially noteworthy in regard to sustainability decision making, where expert and lay-perspectives must be woven together in order to construct a shared understanding of the challenge and, even more important, to craft and implement a response appropriate to the complexity of the systems that must be influenced.…”

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“…However, despite the need to address sustainability issues in integrated ways, governments frequently undertake deliberative collaborative governance on an ad hoc basis at the discretion of public officials. Pateman argues that the conventional institutions of democracy must be subject to structural change if they are to support participatory democracy adequately, and criticises the lack of integration of deliberative democracy initiatives into the 'regular political cycle in the life of a community' ( [20], p. 10). Carolyn Lukensmeyer, the President and Founder of AmericaSpeaks, argues that 'the way the public's business is done needs to become more inclusive and participatory as standard practice, especially at the national level.…”

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The Role of Deliberative Collaborative Governance in Achieving Sustainable Cities

Gollagher

Hartz-Karp

2013

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Sustainability issues involve complex interactions between social, economic, and environmental factors that are often viewed quite differently by disparate stakeholder groups. Issues of non-sustainability are wicked problems that have many, often obscure causes, and for which there is no single, straightforward solution. Furthermore, the concept of sustainability is itself contested. For example there are disputes over whether a strong or weak interpretation of sustainability should be adopted. In cities, as elsewhere, sustainability therefore requires discursive plurality and multiple sites of action. It is the thesis of this paper that effective problem solving, decision-making and enacting of a sustainability agenda require deliberative collaborative governance (DCG), a logical hybrid of the closely related fields of deliberative democracy and collaborative governance. We provide a provisional typology of different modes of deliberative collaborative governance, explaining each with a sustainability example, with a particular focus on DCG initiatives for planning in Western Australia. It is argued that the lens provided by such a typology can help us to understand the factors likely to promote better resolution of wicked problems and increased sustainability.

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Participatory Democracy Revisited

Cited by 559 publications

References 31 publications

Electoral Democracy and Human Development

Electoral Democracy and Human Development

Trends in Voter Surveillance in Western Societies: Privacy Intrusions and Democratic Implications

The Role of Deliberative Collaborative Governance in Achieving Sustainable Cities

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