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In preparation for my master’s thesis, I have reviewed several papers on citizen participation. However, I would like to have a more structured literature list (in terms of chronological and ideological development) of the topic and ensure that I have not overlooked significant literature in the fields of social studies and urbanism. Grateful for any information.
Un artículo científico de mi autoría fue publicado en la Revista Mexicana de Investigación e Intervención Educativa y no puedo registrar mi artículo científico: Criminología y participación ciudadana en la elaboración de políticas públicas para la remediación ambiental de ríos y quebradas en Azogues, Ecuador.
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Perfect democracy thinking assumes no chaos so no need for independent rule of law system and liberal democracies assume the possibility of normal democratic chaos that can be sorted out by an independent rule of law system.
So when rethinking democracy we have to think now about normal chaos, targeted chaos, and effective targeted chaos affecting voting complacency under an independent rule of law system so we can explain both the coming and going of normal and extreme democratic outcomes within liberal democracies in terms of normal and extreme democratic outcome competition....,
And this raises a key current question that was made relevant by the coming and going of 2016 Brexit/Brexism and 2016 Usexit/Trumpism:
What is effective targeted chaos?
What do you think?
Keep in mind: This is an academic question, not a political one.
Is the climate crisis progressing faster than the changing state of public awareness regarding the issue of the importance of the green transformation of the economy?
Is the climate crisis, the progressive process of global warming moving faster than the changing state of public awareness regarding the issue of the importance of the green transformation of the economy to slow down the process?
How long might it take for a change in consciousness, such as. on the full understanding of the need to change to a meatless diet, on not using motor vehicles powered by an internal combustion engine or at least turning off the engine when the vehicle is stationary, not mowing lawns but replacing them with flower meadows, planting trees wherever possible, not buying new clothes when the previously used ones are not damaged, not buying various types of products when the previously used ones are still fully functional, repairing previously used household appliances and other equipment instead of buying new ones, and if buying it at used equipment sales, etc.? Will this kind of change in consciousness to pro-climate, pro-environment and pro-environment last a generation, shorter or longer?
In the 21st century, new megatrends of global, long-term, multi-year processes, including processes of climate change, processes of environmental change, social processes, economic processes, processes of changing economic paradigms and processes of green transformation of the economy, are taking place or are just beginning to take place. What all these processes have in common is that they are proceeding on a multi-year scale, they are multi-faceted, complex, interrelated, they operate as objective processes, they are increasingly visible, the role and importance of these processes is growing. However, what is particularly important and what differentiates these processes from each other is the rate of progressive change, including the development of the determinants that generate these processes. Well, taking into account the period since the first industrial revolution, both the process of global warming is progressing faster and faster, as well as the process of people noticing these climate changes and their effects, the process of development of pro-climate and pro-environmental awareness of citizens, as well as the process of green transformation of the economy, which has been taking place since relatively recently, is also progressing faster and faster every year. However, the pace of the progressive process of increasing the level of pro-ecological, pro-environmental and pro-climate awareness and the processes of man-made green transformation of the economy, which are aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, slowing down the processes of climate change, reducing the scale of the negative effects of these processes, reducing the scale of the level of environmental pollution, reducing the scale of nature degradation, increasing the scale of climate and biosphere protection, reducing the scale of the loss of biodiversity of the planet's natural ecosystems are still progressing too slowly in view of the accelerating process of global warming.
Given the speed of the progressive process of global warming and the pace of the green transition process being implemented, the important change that can also be made in a relatively longer period of time is the change in the consciousness of citizens to a more pro-climate, pro-environment and pro-environment. However, how much of a change in consciousness it may take, involving, for example However, how long it may take to change people's consciousness, such as fully understanding the need to change their diet to a meat-free one, not using motor vehicles powered by combustion engines or at least turning off the engine when the vehicle is stationary, not mowing lawns but changing them into flower meadows, planting trees where possible, not buying new clothes when the ones used so far are not damaged, not buying different kinds of products when the ones used so far are still fully functional, repairing previously used household appliances and other equipment instead of buying new ones, and if buying it at second-hand equipment sales, etc.? perhaps depends on many factors. This kind of change in consciousness to pro-climate, pro-environment and pro-environment will perhaps take a generation, perhaps shorter or longer. This issue is determined, among others, by such factors as education; the message coming from the media; the information policy of the new media, including online social media; climate, environmental, energy, agricultural policies shaped by politicians; the addition of the goals of sustainable development, green business transformation, environmental social responsibility, climate responsibility, etc. to the development strategy and mission of a company, enterprise, bank, public institution, etc. Besides, the aforementioned factors are interrelated, influence each other and act as an interconnected system of vessels. The key issue of changing the level of pro-environmental and pro-climate awareness is the information policy shaped by decision-makers, by governments, by key public institutions on the issues of ecology, climate, the environment, the role of man in the greenhouse gas emissions generated by civilization, the accelerating process of global warming, the increasingly prevalent and growing negative effects of these processes, environmental degradation, the rapid decline in the biodiversity of the planet's natural ecosystems, the green transformation of the economy, etc..., the specific climate, environmental, energy policies applied by the governments of the countries and, therefore, real pro-social policies, the role of the media in promoting the above-mentioned issues, including, among others, the accelerating process of global warming and the need to accelerate the processes of green transformation of the economy, the role of youth education in these issues, etc.
I am conducting research on this issue. I have included the conclusions of my research in the following article:
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT AS A KEY ELEMENT OF THE PRO-ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE ECONOMY TOWARDS GREEN ECONOMY AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY
I invite you to discuss this important topic for the future of the planet's biosphere and climate.
I invite you to familiarize yourself with the issues described in the publications given above and to scientific cooperation in these issues.
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
Is the climate crisis, the progressive process of global warming, proceeding faster than the changing state of public awareness of the issue of the importance of green transformation of the economy to slow down this process?
Is the climate crisis progressing faster than the changing state of public awareness regarding the issue of the importance of green transformation of the economy?
Is the climate crisis progressing faster than the progressive development of pro-environmental and pro-climate awareness of citizens?
What do you think about this topic?
What is your opinion on this issue?
Please answer,
I invite everyone to join the discussion,
Thank you very much,
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
The above text is entirely my own work written by me on the basis of my research.
In writing this text, I did not use other sources or automatic text generation systems.
Copyright by Dariusz Prokopowicz
As all of you may know, we can take the experience of Trumpism(November 2016-January 2021) in the USA to explore questions such as when a democratic contest can lead to partial and permanent authoritarianism. The failure of the USEXIT/Trumpism to persist by losing reelection means that we just witness temporary authoritarianism, but it could have been worse as one more step was needed to move towards permanent authoritarianism in the USA and the lost of the most relevant normal democratic system in the world. Which raises the question, When can permanent authoritarianism take hold under majority rule liberal democracies?. Any ideas about what the missing step was to transition from temporary to permanent authoritarianism in the USA in 2020. Feel free to share your ideas.
Has anyone applied Beer (1994) Team Syntegrity (TS) with citizen assemblies?
Might TS be a useful underpinning approach?
Beer, S., (1994). Beyond dispute: The invention of team syntegrity, Wiley, Chichester, UK. (1994)
Team syntegrity: A new methodology for group work https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/026323739600028X
Since 2016 we have come to see that liberal democracies under majority rule can lead to normal democratic outcomes/normal democratic movements; and extreme democratic outcomes/extreme exism movements like Brexit, Usexit/Trumpism, Brazilexit, Italianexit….and so on. We have come to see also that exism movements cannot be in power forever under majority rule and the independent rule of law based liberal democracies. As the world view of a normal liberal democracy is the inverse of the world view of the extreme liberal democracy, this leads to the question: Inverse reality and exism movements: How are they linked?
Any ideas? Please share your own views.
If you look carefully as how exism movements like Trumpism or Italianism or Brexism or Brazilianism come to exist under majority rule based democracies, they all need the same conditions to exist,....without this condition they can not come to power....
which raises the question, what is the necessary and sufficient condition for an exism movement to come to exist under majority rule based liberal democracies?
What do you think?
I am looking for someone to collaborate on writing a research paper. The topic can include only one of the following: UX (UI), the e-government (e-administration, tax portal), citizens' perception, social media. I am a fourth year PhD student finishing my thesis. I have published six conference papers and one paper in a journal (I am still in a process of learning, but already with some experience mostly in qualitative content analysis).
If there is anyone who would like to participate in the research and work together on an article, please let me know. We can discuss different topics. Thank you.
How do local government units in your country inspire citizens to save electricity and/or heat, conserve water sparingly, segregate waste, and other pro-environmental daily practices and actions?
How do local government units, including municipalities, as part of their pro-environmental and pro-climate policies, inspire citizens to save electricity and/or heat, conserve water sparingly, segregate waste and other pro-environmental, everyday practices and actions?
There have been many different crises since the beginning of the 21st century, and there is little indication that this would change in the years to come. The dotcom crisis at the turn of the 20th/XXI century, the global financial crisis of 2007-2009, the global recession of the 2020 economy triggered by interventionist measures carried out during the 1st wave of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the overly lenient monetary policy carried out during the pandemic, the strong rise in inflation and the risk of stagflation in 2020, the currently developing energy crisis, the currently developing food crisis in some poorer countries, the already ongoing climate crisis that will intensify in the coming decades. As the levels of various risks increase, the scales and frequency of various crises increase, more and more public institutions, government agencies, NGOs but also local government units are taking various anti-crisis measures. Currently, the currently developing crises in many countries are: the economic downturn caused by high inflation; the energy crisis caused by high fuel and energy prices and low levels of energy self-sufficiency and underdevelopment of renewable energy sources; the climate crisis (and in some countries also the food crisis), the consequences of which include severe heat and droughts causing a decline in the production of agricultural crops, increased energy consumption and other negative effects. The climate crisis is likely to develop for many more years. In some countries, due to the low level of energy self-sufficiency, the low level of development of renewable and carbon-free energy sources, the scale of the currently developing energy crisis is greater and in the future, the negative effects of the climate crisis may also be more severe for nature and humans. Accordingly, local government units are also inspiring citizens to use water sparingly, save energy, segregate waste and other pro-environmental daily practices and actions. However, there are big differences in this regard when comparing environmental and pro-environmental policies and realistically carried out pro-environmental activities and green projects by individual local government units.
In view of the above, I address the following research question to the esteemed community of researchers and scientists:
How do local government units, including municipalities, within the framework of their pro-environmental and pro-climate policies, inspire citizens to save electricity and/or heat, conserve water, segregate waste and other pro-environmental daily practices and actions?
Please answer,
I invite everyone to join the discussion,
Thank you very much,
The following articles are related to the above issues in some respects:
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT AS A KEY ELEMENT OF THE PRO-ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE ECONOMY TOWARDS GREEN ECONOMY AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY
HUMAN SECURITY AS AN ELEMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
POLAND'S 2022 ENERGY CRISIS AS A RESULT OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE AND YEARS OF NEGLECT TO CARRY OUT A GREEN TRANSFORMATION OF THE ENERGY SECTOR
Energy Saving Practices in the IT Area as a Factor of Sustainable Development of the Organisation: A Case Study of Poland
Increase in the Internetisation of economic processes, economic, pandemic and climate crises, as well as cybersecurity as key challenges and philosophical paradigms for the development of 21st century civilisation
The Key Security Problems Related to the Pro-Environmental Economic Transformation and the Implementation of the Principles of Sustainable Development into the Economy
I invite you to scientific cooperation,
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
In the context of rising energy prices and the current energy crisis, how can the state, as part of a frugal energy policy, encourage and/or motivate citizens to manage the heating of their homes sensibly?
In my country, 25 million citizens are using district heating in their flats and houses (flats in multi-family buildings, housing estates, houses in the city heated by district heating plants).
Many people overheat their flats. The thermostats are set too high or, when there are no thermostats and the radiators are hot, instead of turning down the radiator some people open the windows and most of the heat escapes into the atmosphere outside the flat.
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of researchers and scientists:
In the context of rising energy prices and the current energy crisis, how can the state, as part of a frugal energy policy, encourage and/or motivate citizens to manage their home heating sensibly?
What is your opinion on this topic?
Please reply,
I invite you all to discuss,
Thank you very much,
Regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
The project focus fits my own research agenda (i.e. youth guarantee and EU semester).
In order to tackle complex challenges we need collaboration across sectors (between state and society) as well as between ministries and administrative levels (e.g. often innovative initiatives are local, but the federal level has littles possibilities to empower their creativity and learn from them). Often gov.labs impact just one ministry or administrative level, and has no mandate to transform the political system as such. Do you know of any successful gov.lab in this regard?
Thanks and best wishes, Patrizia Nanz
Do participatory planning projects have significant advantages compared to relying on experts, employees, and officials only when dealing with urban planning?
Once extreme democratic outcomes like Trumpism come to exist they must behave autocratically as their model structure, including the political and legal loyalties structures that they needed to persist, are the opposite as those of the normal liberal democracy model inside which extreme democratic outcomes came to exist.
Then when time for re-elections comes for extreme democratic outcomes, there is the possibility of winning or losing if playing the normal liberal democracy way, but there is the need to win at all cost if playing the extreme liberal democracy way.
Which leads to the question, what is the sufficient condition for extreme democratic outcomes like Trumpism to win re-elections or persist in power at all cost? Can the absence of this condition sufficient condition explains why Trumpism failed to persist in 2020?
Any ideas? Please share your own ideas in order to exchange ideas.
Keep in mind; this is an academic question, not a political question as I am a scientist, not a politician.
I am analysing the outcomes of a pilot project involving people' reaction (reaches and engagements) to posts related to plastic pollution. To enhance engagement we proposed "challenges" i.e. contributions in terms of pictures, ideas exchange, etc., with awards, related to our specific posts.
Apparently we caught a group of serial participants to giveaways, who usually enroll in all kinds of social media activities which can bring them an award.
I am not specialist of the topic, but I wonder if there is a) a definition or keywords for the phenomenon and b) literature in this respect, so to be able to describe the phenomenon and the eventual bias in our data.
Thank you for your help
How could all citizens participate in the law-making and processes of government without prejudice wherever they found themselves?
Democracy and decentralisation is meaningless without the active participation of the people in decision and policy making process. Therefore, how one can measure the level of people's participation? What are the major attributes to identify and investigate citizen participation in decentralization process?
I think it is essential that students participate in the evaluation process, using self-evaluation and peer evaluation, as a strategy to become more aware of their responsibility as active subjects of their own learning.
This construction as conscious subjects can serve as the basis for the continuous training that they will have throughout their lives, since they can learn to depend more on themselves than on others, allowing greater levels of autonomy.
On the other hand, self-evaluation and peer evaluation contribute to decentralize the evaluative power that is in the hands of teachers. If asymmetry is not possible to lose in the formal education framework, given that the teacher is responsible for certifying learning, it can enable the participation of students and collaboration among them, experiences that will surely be very useful for them. in their future citizen participation in the society to which they belong.
Do you think across the world countries achieved citizen satisfaction in e-government?
Please kindly share your ideas.
Thank you...
How far digital technological innovations have succeeded in overcoming political apathy and political disengagement? If your answer goes utopian way, how sustainable will that change be? Do we have any empirical evidence which may suggest that the change in real sense is sustainable?
Politics and the widening divide has a lot to do with citizen participation and governance. Because every single solution to climate change involves more government commitment and citizen re-orientation. What do you think?
should I use two separate coding?
How can I analyse them?
I can not conclude that which ine are right?
should I reject or accept my hypothesis @the citizens play a participatory role in urban regeneration@?
citizens believe that participation never took place and managers says it happened 100% :(((((
Trying to understand online vigilantism practices through questioning the pros and cons of public contribution to the production of security
Hello, I am interested in everyone thoughts on what motivates a volunteer to participate in a survey of any form.
I am currently undertaking a literature review on citizen science and would like first hand experience reviews on why volunteers participated.
Thanks
Stephanie
There's no denying we've seen a massive proliferation of online petitions, but are they actually effective in influencing policy? What forms of participatory democracy are actually effective as a citizen engagement mechanism that can influence policy.
Researchers are mindful of funding sources like Pharma and Political Entities
Should the UN or WHO run an independent global research fund, with all nations represented, to serve as a single global source for research funding?
To eliminate external bias and pressure?
My thesis in about the effects of city branding on citizen participation. I'm looking for resources about dimensions of citizen participation and city branding. Could you help me to know this resources? Is there any resources about the relationship between place marketing and citizen participation that you know?
Thanks
I am interested in the following questions:
What are extreme democratic outcomes(EDO)? When should they be expected to take place? Do they work under sustainability theory or chaos theory?. Are they the extreme opposite of the normal democratic outcomes that are supposed to come out from democratic models based on majority rule one person one vote? Do they follow normal independent voting/preferences and ranking assumptions?.
And the reasons are:
Without having answers to the questions above, it is difficult a) to predict EDOs and therefore to avoid them; b) it is not possible to see how you can deal with them once they take place; c) it is difficult to see the link between chaos in the creation and the sustaining of the conditions behind the extreme democratic outcome; and d) it is difficult to see what needs to be done to create the conditions for extreme democratic outcomes to revert towards normal democratic outcomes.
The need for a theory of extreme democratic outcomes and democracy
The fact that polling and the media missed the coming the BREXIT and the USEXIT, the subsequent lost of BREXIT and the fact that extreme democratic outcomes did not materialize in France and the Netherlands indicate that a theory of extreme democratic outcomes and democracy is needed urgently.
I am working on a series of papers on the topic right now as it is clear that at least in the short and medium term some extreme democratic outcomes and their consequences are here to stay, and stay longer if we keep treating them as if we are dealing with normal democratic outcomes.
Is anybody here working in the lines of extreme democratic outcomes, a line where normal ideas of voting theories and preference ranking may no longer work?. Any comments?
Strategic Planning was introduced in Egypt in the first half of the 2000s, after decades of applying the comprehensive planning approach in the planning process throughout the 20th century. The SP was first introduced by the UNDP and the UNHABITAT, and was officially adopted by the planning authorities in Egypt in 2006. It was mainly used in the re-planning and upgrading the existing cities and villages. This was done through an ambitious initiative that is entering now its third stage. It is important to note that there are two main bodies that are responsible for the official planning activities in Egypt and are both affiliated to the Ministry of Housing and Public Utilities. The first one is General Organization for Physical Planning (GOPP), which I responsible for the planning of existing settlements, as well as making regional plans. The second one is the New Urban Communities Authority, which is responsible for the planning of the new settlements.
The SP approach has been significantly applied by the GOPP in the re-planning and upgrading attempts of the existing settlements, cities and villages, since the mid-2000s. The initial reception of the SP approach among the planning consultants and the GOPP officials was of a great anticipation and hope for a better change towards fulfilling the needs of the local communities, enhancing the built environment and improving the stagnant situation of the many Egyptian settlements. The concepts of having a vision that leads to the formulation of strategic plans to be realized by implementing strategic projects within a span of five years – to be revisited and modified according to the needs afterwards- was quiet appealing, while having strong citizen participation during the SP process.
Now with more than a decade that passed since the implementation of the SP approach in Egypt, several aspects are being questioned in relation to the whole approach and its implementation. Questions related to Visions, actors, citizen participation as well as the actual implementation of the formulated Strategic plans are raised.
I have been involved in the planning domain since 2008, where I contributed in formulating the Strategic Master Plans for four cities in the Egyptian Delta as well as the Initial Regional Strategic Plan for the Halayeb sub-region in the Soth of Egypt. I already have critical reflection that I will share as well in an article to be formulated.
In this Post, I am requesting the feedback, opinions and comments of those who were involved in the SP process since it started in Egypt in 2006 (or earlier) and would like to ask them to use the following Questions for reflections. I would say that those who would like to participate don't need to reflect on all the points, but they can select whatever they like or even add more points. The questions are as follows:
Visions
- Are the visions formulated during the SP approach get really implemented and respected during the plan making and later its implementation or are they just consumed and produced for the sake of administrative purposes?
Visions are set at the beginning of the Strategic Planning project, with the contribution of most of the stake holders
Implementation
- Did the strategic planning approach realized its purpose in improving the planning process of planning the Egyptian cities both new and existing?
- What kind of drawbacks were experienced by the planners and decision makers when applying the SP approach in Egypt?
- To which extent are the SP plans implemented, especially that the initial milestone for these plans was the year 2017 and the year has already passed?
- What kind of factors affect the implementation of the plans? And are these plans respected?
Actors
- What are the roles of the involved actors and what kind of actors are involved both in new and existing cities, as well as the regional dimension?
- What kind of actor networks /arenas get involved in the planning process? Or are they overshadowed and dominated by more influential actors?
Citizens
- The engagement of citizens in the planning process, is this really obvious, or is it a drawback? In terms of participation?
I highly appreciate the input of those who are interested and I promise to share the final version of this article once finalized.
Other things being equal(Ceteris Paribus), it can be said that types of democratic outcomes possible under majority rule based democracy are normal democratic outcomes and extreme democratic outcomes.…,,,Under normal democratic outcomes the majority view rules, either as a full majority or a partial majority. Under extreme democratic outcomes the true minority view rules, which raises the question, can extreme democratic outcomes take place if there is no chaos?. I think no, what do you think?
Under normal democratic outcomes where the majority rules concerns about minority rights has led to majority rule subject to respecting minority rights avoiding that way the Tyranny of the majority.
This was the democratic landscape in western democracies until 2016 when BREXIT and USEXIT came along.
Now we live in a world where extreme democratic outcomes in some places exist along with normal democratic outcomes in other places. Which leads to my question, Are Brexism(UK) and Trumpism(USEXIT) examples of the Tyranny of the minority at work?. I think yes, what do you think?
I am looking for further reading, in particular studies on how citizens' legislative initiative, petition or public hearing (as Participatory Democracy institutions) are used in European countries. I am specifically looking for case studies, but I will be happy to look at more general analysis.
We have recently published a work on the educational implications of these organizations for citizen participation. In this paper we analyze the influence of agencies such as ISO or EFQM in the dynamics of the Third Sector, as well as the mismatches and the need to propose an alternative external-evaluation model closer to the original sense of the setting-up of this centers and the needs of people who associate therein. Is a new external-evaluation paradigm necessary to be defined?
I am currently doing research to analyze environmental challenges and opportunities regarding participatory governance in small-scale democracies. Success stories are usually found in larger states. Does anyone have any case studies or articles on citizen participation in SIDS maybe?
It is a known fact that in a democratic set-up how do voters exercise their franchise to vote goes a long way with regard to how accountable the next government is going to be. In fact, the progress of a democracy is very much dependent on the right choices being made by the voters during the course of an election. In this regard, it becomes pertinent to dwell upon the various reasons which enable a voter to vote judiciously. The question is, what all factors enable a voter to vote in a rational manner during an election? This needs to be explored particularly in the case of such democracies like India which is not as much evolved (on the virtue of being relatively new) as compared to say the USA or Britain.
Let us take the example of Corruption ,
We need to work on it but the authorities are also involved in the issue . How to get approval of the government and the ethical committee?
Hi, everyone! I am working on a research exploring the idea that (Western) development donors are now using some global development agenda as a top-down measure in development toward local implementers (e.g. international organisations, NGOs, CBOs), while many implementers, on the contrary, create locality or 'local realities' back to those donors in their development practice. However, I am aiming to connect this two different worlds between 'the global' and 'the local' and incorporate them into a vernacular version of development agendas. In order to make it clearer, the gender mainstreaming might be a good example (as I talk about it in my research). It is used by donors in top-down characteristics, while local implementers incorporate it in their work and report back in bottom-up characteristics. However, in their reports, I believe, there are both the 'globalised' gender mainstreaming and the 'localised' one intermingled in the 'in-between space' of the global and the local. Those two worlds are no more separated but interconnected by this sense.
However, so far, I could not find much of pieces of literature on 'vernacularization', 'vernacularism' and 'vernacularity', particularly in development studies. Any thoughts? Any recommedations?
Thank you very much!
In my book "Public Participation as a Tool for Integrating Local Knowledge into Spatial Planning" (Springer, 2017) I compare between the respective capabilities of different participatory practices - top-down as well as bottom-up - to capture residents' local knowledge (e.g., needs, perceptions, perspectives, opinions) and incorporate it into planning and plans. The comparison is conducted according to dozens parameters such as 'the motivators for participatory processes', 'procedures and tools employed in the participatory processes', 'the interaction between stakeholders', 'exposure of local knowledge', 'characteristics of local knowledge exposed', etc.
I am now working on my paper aiming to identify the way many development donors (e.g. DFID, USAID, etc.) utilise the gender mainstreaming (and/or green agenda) to generate their power and control over international organisations and local NGOs as aid recipients. Their conducts, including their performance focus, development practices, development paradigm, and their performance results in project reports, should be in accordance with donors' conditionalities. I initially interpret that they become a particular type of subject that donors would like to see and would like to engage in their relationship.
However, I am not sure if I could apply Foucault's 'Governmentality' and his 'Technologies of Power' to this work. If not, Is there any theories from any particular theorists suitable for this? Please give me some advice. Thank you very much!
Please give me some advice. Thank you very much!
While newspaper columnists and editorials have attempted to debate the constitutionality of LCDAs, documenting the legal battles that trail its creation while it lasted, not much has been seen from scholars in the sense of empirical evaluation of these phenomenon that has come to stick to us in local governance discourse in Nigeria.
So, we while wait for the constituent listing by the national assembly in the constitution, do we simply seat and observe these important institutions without any empirical evaluation vis a vis their purported mandates.
I'd like to find tables and data about levels of discrimination against migrants in the different autonomous communities.
request for participation in project survey :Smart Government Services acceptance in UAE: Citizen Perspective ?
I am looking for literature addressing the issue of how to make citizens participate in the co-production or co-creation of urban services especially in the context of e-participation. Which kind of incentives mechanisms could result in increasing citizens’ participation in urban services? What strategies can be used by local decision-makers in order to deal with a lack of citizens’ participation?
This is sort of an action research that would involve the whole school (staff, students, administration etc) into the process how to mobilize the community in helping itself solving its own issues. I used to look at the community how it can be helpful to school to achieve its objectives. Now, how this process can be reciprocal in the sense that school help the community to improve. Any suggestions regarding specific literature would highly appreciated. Thanks
I’m looking for researchers based in Europe who are studying the involvement/participation of migrants and ethnic minorities in healthcare governance (including health policy-making; service planning, implementation and evaluation; health promotion; guideline development; etc.).
I also welcome information on research done on migrant and ethnic minority user participation, inside or outside Europe.
I really want to know any latest theories related to the causal relationships between increased exposure of international communication (e.g., overseas students, visiting professors) and democratisation process. Thanks.
I would like to know whether there is progress in accepted standards and more refined ways to understand levels of citizen participation (I am familiar with the work of Arnstein, IAP2, Tambouris, Macintosh and similar ladders). Any advice and recent literature after 2014 is welcome!
I am doing something like allourideas.org, but for fundraising purposes. I do not need the precision of allourideas algorithm, but I do need to cut costs. I just tried to take a blank tear-off pad and asked 20 people that know me for half a year: "What do you want to do in society ? I got about 50 good ideas with preferences, contacts for 15 people with permission to ask for help, 4 that are offering specific help and two young enthusiasts that volunteer for me.
That seems good to me. Does anyone know about some methodology that is concerned with something similar ?
I am working as philosopher, no need to be strictly scientific. Thank you.
I am researching on the influence of citizen participation on urban sustainable development and would welcome contributions on the subject.
Compulsory voting is not a new concept, either theoretically or in practice. Currently, 22 countries have laws for compulsory voting, but they are not enforced in 11. The practice creates a legal obligation for a citizen to vote in elections. If one fails to vote, he or she may be subject to punitive measures, such as fines or community service.
Recently, US president Barrack Obama brought public attention to "mandatory" voting by advocating the practice. He has defended his advocacy with an argument based upon expanding the electorate in the interest of greater democratic legitimacy.
Voter turnout in the US is quite low compared with turnout in other mature democracies. Chronic nonvoters in the US are disproportionately poor, members of minorities, and in general, socially disadvantaged. It is argued by Obama and others, that compulsory voting would increase both the size and diversity of the active electorate.
On the other hand, if voting is a right, then to simultaneously make it a legal duty, creates a moral contradiction. Hannah Arendt, influenced by Socrates' position in Apology, argues that the right to participate politically entails a person's right not to participate in any way whatsoever.
The comments above suggest but a few of the important issues in democratic theory and political participation raised by the debate over compulsory voting.
(Please see my article, "The Moral Problem of Nonvoting". The pdf is attached below.)
In the recent three decades local democracy attracted intensive research activities. Taking into account European context, most of the relevant scholars concluded that the quality of local democracy had been improved since the 1980s in the cases of so called 'Western European countries' and since the beginning of the 1990s in the cases of so called 'Post-Communist European countries'. However, the achieved improvements have been of different nature, and they have been accompanied by various unintended (or even negative) outcomes too.
My study area is appraisal of poverty alleviation programs in the rural areas. Could you kindly assist me with new instruments of assessing policies on poverty alleviation.
Kindly assist with relevant indicators for the following variables: intervention programs, citizen participation and good governance. Thank you.
The ego-centric approach relies on questionnaires designed by the author who involves the 5 other Algerian women, called seeds. Questionnaires will be then given to ‘nodes’, direct personal ‘ties’, and elements of those ‘ties’. It is an ideal method for studying the effects of social networks on individuals (Mardsen 1990). The advantage of ego-centric analysis is its focus on the individual or ‘node’ as the main element of analysis. In many cases, researchers are not able to contact all respondents directly and must rely on alternative information collected from the initial contacts which might end up with missing important information. For this reason , the researcher will combine RDS, snowball and ego-centric sampling to maintain the ability to reach reasonable statistical deductions (Salganik and Heckathorn 2004). In fact, RDS is now widely used to study any hidden group or populations through the globe, such as drug dealers or HIV (Malekinejad et al 2008).
I'm doing masters research based on my professional practice in urban renewal, and I am trying to figure out if there is any finished or ongoing project, in which the citizens participated even to establish the objectives of the project. Furthermore, I'm interested in those in which there are interventions in the physical structures, and the owners were in agreement with a broad majority from the beginning.
The objective of this question is to reflect on the importance of the direct participation of the population in the local power to decide processes. The desired focus is on the common citizen and their possible intervention in the local power to decide processes.
As we know, cyber activism is not a homogenous trend, as it covers a multitude of actions undertaken by social movements, nongovernmental organizations and individual entities.
I know it is difficult to measure the results of actions realized by cyber activists in a literal sense, f. ex. present them in detailed percentage bars. What concerns cyber activists, the most important issue is that the initiative has to reach the awareness of the recipient and has to make him think.
Do you think that actions undertaken by cyber activists weaken the position occupied by elites within the public space?
Against the backdrop of the remarkable success in the East and South-East Asian developmental states, scores of research in Africa has tried to look at the replicability of the model to conditions in Africa. This paper seeks to review and analyze the existing literature on the 'developmental states' notion and comes out with five crucial features that have spurred the success of the states in the aforementioned region. Given the African context, the thesis challenges the 'impossible theorem' and concurs with African scholars who call for a democratic developmental state for Africa. In doing this, the thesis seeks to track the development path of a country - Mauritius, as a typical example of a successful developmental state in Africa.
As well as breeding general apathy and antipathy, it is argued that events such as economic crises which lead to a degradation in social resources (time, money, energy) among citizens, and impacts on political participation; citizens exit participatory spheres as they find they simply no longer have the resources to remain active within them (see Deitz 1998). Often referenced are things like joining political parties, attending protests or demonstrations, writing or reading political discourse, and so on.
My question is whether we should expect that this would have the same impact on low-cost, low-resource elements of political participation? By this I mean things such as wearing campaign badges, signing petitions, boycotting products, and so on.
Academics such as Hilton (2002) and even Hay (2007) have long acknowledged that such alternative, informal participatory modes as these have not been subject to the same general decline as participation in formal modes such as voting and joining parties, but I believe that events such as economic crises provide a unique phenomenon which may affect this trend.
I am writing a quantitative piece on this topic for the ECPR Glasgow conference, and have already done the data analysis. So although I kind of know the answer to this already (whether it does or not), I would like to pick your collective brains about the theories and ideas which surround it.
I am researching the influence of citizen participation in sustainable urban development and I would welcome contributions on this subject, because I am in search of new and creative ways to better involve citizens, communities and others interested in the promotion of citizen participation.
Parliamentary elections are under commencement in India. After tireless efforts of election commission voting percentage is surprising.
Urban citizen are considered to be more active and aware about their rights compared to the rural ones. But, picture is totally changes when it comes to right to vote.
Mumbai (the biggest and richest city of India) only 27% voters casted their votes while in rural areas, voting figures are exceeding 80%.
Are educated people taking democracy for granted?
I am researching the influence of citizen participation in sustainable urban development and I would welcome contributions on this subject, because I am in search of new and creative ways to better involve citizens, communities and others interested in the promotion of citizen participation.
As part of my methods I intend to be a participant observer of several meetings and the thought of describing the room, seating positions, attire, pen type etc of each individual feels more and more impossible. Has anyone experienced the use of a template which may assist?
Public participation and active involvement of stakeholders in environmental governance is widely promoted. My intention is, if some disadvantages regarding (environmental) NGOs participation in public decision-making have been detected and described with the reference to particular case-studies. Thanks!
We form huge Community Development Initiatives in which people participate for development, change and better livelihood. We also find Social Activism that again mobilizes people for all these purposes. Is the difference only in semantics - just because two schools of sociologists used two different terms to mean the same thing?
In most African States civil society has been viewed not to be active in public policy making, the reins of governance have been in full control in this important aspect of state management.
When WGI and ADB indicators of governance talk about good governance, they lay considerable emphasis on Transparency and Accountability. Both these are not attainable unless citizens participate in governance process. In large democracies, direct participation of citizens in the governance process poses a big challenge on account of large populations, even in small pockets. Illiteracy, political naivety, and insufficient mechanisms to incorporate citizen participation pose further challenges. In such a context, how do we enhance citizen participation in governance? What legislative, executive and judicial mechanisms should we adopt?
My interest is to map the network of actors around a protected areas. The actors are organizations or individuals and the connections are the direction and content of information shared. Any suggestions on what to use to map this network?
Species monitoring programs in Europe and North America often use unspecialized local collaborators to monitor species throughout countries. This seems extremely hard to do in the Neotropics where the large species diversity almost forbids this approach. Butterflies, for instance, is a group that has benefited much from this approach in both continents. Can we do it in megadiverse countries?
