Practices of freedom : decentred governance, conflict and democratic participation /

The shift from government to governance has become a starting point for many studies of contemporary policy-making and democracy. Practices of Freedom takes a different approach, calling into question this dominant narrative and taking the variety, hybridity and dispersion of social and political pr...

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Other Authors: Griggs, Steven, 1962- (Editor), Norval, Aletta J. (Editor), Wagenaar, H. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: democracy, conflict and participation in decentred governance Steven Griggs, Aletta J. Norval and Hendrik Wagenaar; 2. Governance-driven democratisation Mark E. Warren; 3. Beyond deliberation: agonistic and aversive grammars of democracy: the question of criteria Aletta J. Norval; 4. Designing democratic institutions for decentred governance: the Council of Europe's acquis Vivien Lowndes and Lawrence Pratchett; 5. Assessing the democratic anchorage of governance networks Eva Sørenson and Jacob Torfing; 6. Learning through contested governance: the practice of agonistic intersubjectivity John Forester; 7. Decentred legitimacy in the new community governance Steven Connelly; 8. Designing 'the political' in (and out) of neighbourhood governance Helen Sullivan; 9. Participatory governance in practice Therese O'Toole and Richard Gale; 10. The agonistic experience: informality, hegemony, and the prospects for democratic governance Hendrik Wagenaar; 11. Insurgent citizenship: radicalism, co-optation, and neighbourhood geopolitics among the Palestinian citizens of Haifa, Israel Joseph Leibovitz.