The use and abuse of participatory governance by populist governments

Batory, Agnes; Svensson, Sara

doi:10.1332/030557319x15487805848586

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“…Collaborative governance (Batory & Svensson, 2019) is certainly a way forward identifying opportunities to develop solutions in consultation with stakeholders. Sport organizations rarely advocate the principles of collaborative governance in identifying solutions to crisis, when the need for advanced collaborative governance is greatest, engaging a wide diversity of stakeholders in "collective decision-making processes that are deliberative and consensusoriented" (O'Boyle et al, 2019, p. 222).…”

Section: Discussion: Implications For Sport Governance Research and Practicementioning

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COVID-19 impacts on sport governance and management: a global, critical realist perspective

Byers

Gormley

Winand

et al. 2021

Managing Sport and Leisure

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This commentary considers the impacts of COVID-19 on sport governance and management, given the global threat to sport services and organizations evident as a result of the disease since early 2020. To frame this analysis of the impacts and lessons to be learned, we use a Critical Realist (CR) perspective, which takes a multi-level view of reality and seeks to establish how and why something occurs in reality [Byers, T. (2013). Using critical realism: A new perspective on control of volunteers in sport clubs. European Sport Management Quarterly, 13(1), 5-31.

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Section: Discussion: Implications For Sport Governance Research and Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

COVID-19 impacts on sport governance and management: a global, critical realist perspective

Byers

Gormley

Winand

et al. 2021

Managing Sport and Leisure

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“…In this context, family policy with a focus on fertility rates was put in a sharp opposition with immigration from Islamic countries. Accordingly, related questions were posed to the public in the 2015 national consultation on 'immigration and terrorism' and in 2018 on the 'protection of families' (Batory & Svensson, 2019). National consultations, as well as repeated speeches of the Prime Minister, explicitly linked the issue of immigration to the problem of low fertility: "Do you agree with the government that instead of allocating funds to immigration we should support Hungarian families and those children yet to be born?"…”

Section: Policy Discoursesmentioning

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When Populist Leaders Govern: Conceptualising Populism in Policy Making

Bartha

Boda

Szikra

2020

PaG

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The rise of populist governance throughout the world offers a novel opportunity to study the way in which populist leaders and parties rule. This article conceptualises populist policy making by theoretically addressing the substantive and discursive components of populist policies and the decision-making processes of populist governments. It first reconstructs the implicit ideal type of policy making in liberal democracies based on the mainstream governance and policy making scholarship. Then, taking stock of the recent populism literature, the article elaborates an ideal type of populist policy making along the dimensions of content, procedures and discourses. As an empirical illustration we apply a qualitative congruence analysis to assess the conformity of a genuine case of populist governance, social policy in post-2010 Hungary with the populist policy making ideal type. Concerning the policy content, the article argues that policy heterodoxy, strong willingness to adopt paradigmatic reforms and an excessive responsiveness to majoritarian preferences are distinguishing features of any type of populist policies. Regarding the procedural features populist leaders tend to downplay the role of technocratic expertise, sideline veto-players and implement fast and unpredictable policy changes. Discursively, populist leaders tend to extensively use crisis frames and discursive governance instruments in a Manichean language and a saliently emotional manner that reinforces polarisation in policy positions. Finally, the article suggests that policy making patterns in Hungarian social policy between 2010 and 2018 have been largely congruent with the ideal type of populist policy making.

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“…This fuzziness may impact the real world of policy and politics, in the sense that policy-makers may be tempted to claim to have 'collaborative governance' arrangements in place without making actual efforts to genuinely involve outside expertise and stakeholders. In other words, unless 'collaborative governance' is used with precise parameters, it risks becoming a buzz-word or, worse, propaganda (see Batory and Svensson 2019).…”

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The fuzzy concept of collaborative governance: A systematic review of the state of the art

Batory¹,

Svensson²

2019

Central European Journal of Public Policy

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This article contributes to the consolidation and synthesis of scholarship on collaborative governance by expanding our knowledge of how the term is used in the academic literature and policy documents in a range of European countries. It adds value to the existing reviews of the field by conducting a systematic literature review on a corpus of over 700 article abstracts and a traditional literature review identifying five key analytical dimensions. The article also provides an exploratory analysis of grey literature hitherto outside the purview of researchers and considers the linguistic and cultural connotations that alter the meaning of the term when translated into new contexts in ten EU/EFTA countries. Findings indicate heterogeneity and fuzziness in the way the concept is used. The article argues that explicit positions with respect to five main analytical dimensions and taking into account the national connotations that the term carries across political systems would inject more clarity into the academic discourse. This, in turn, will help policymakers to make informed use of the concept, especially in multi-national policy-making arenas.

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The use and abuse of participatory governance by populist governments

Cited by 46 publications

References 26 publications

COVID-19 impacts on sport governance and management: a global, critical realist perspective

COVID-19 impacts on sport governance and management: a global, critical realist perspective

When Populist Leaders Govern: Conceptualising Populism in Policy Making

The fuzzy concept of collaborative governance: A systematic review of the state of the art

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