Arbeitspapier | Working paper

The challenge of citizen participation to democracy

"The paper starts from the observation that the forms of citizen participation have changed considerably from what could be observed in the 1950s and 1960s. Election turn-outs are falling, grass-roots activities of citizens are on the rise and political commentaries in different forms are proliferating on the Internet. How can we conceptualise modern democratic systems and forms of participation? How helpful is democracy theory for this endeavour? The paper revisits classic and post-modern models of democracy and makes an effort to conceptualise and classify modern practices of citizen participation on the basis of categories derived from democracy theory. Democracy theory should also be of help in providing an answer to the question of how democratic instruments of interactive governance actually are. Criteria for the evaluation of these instruments and their impact on policy-making will be derived from theorizing on democracy and some proposals will be made for an operationalisation of these criteria." (author's abstract)

The challenge of citizen participation to democracy

Urheber*in: Biegelbauer, Peter; Loeber, Anne

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Alternative title
Die Herausforderung von Bürgerbeteiligung für die Demokratie
Extent
Seite(n): 33
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion

Bibliographic citation
Reihe Soziologie / Institut für Höhere Studien, Abt. Soziologie (94)

Subject
Politikwissenschaft
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Demokratie
Bürgerbeteiligung
Partizipation
Basisdemokratie
Demokratieverständnis
Demokratisierung
demokratisches Verhalten
deskriptive Studie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Biegelbauer, Peter
Loeber, Anne
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS), Wien
(where)
Österreich, Wien
(when)
2010

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-216055
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Biegelbauer, Peter
  • Loeber, Anne
  • Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS), Wien

Time of origin

  • 2010

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