The growing complexity of collective problems and social needs, aligned with pressures for
cheaper and better public services, have induced efforts at policy reform in many developed …

Recently we have seen the emergence of citizen-led community initiatives and civic
enterprises, taking over governmental tasks in providing public services in various sectors …

In the early years of the twenty-first century in countries like the United Kingdom (for example
Blond 2010; Cameron 2009, 2010; Norman 2010) and the Netherlands (for example De …

Abstract Community-initiatives (CIs)-as residents' bottom-up initiated collective efforts to
improve the livability of their everyday-world-increasingly attract scholarly attention. From an …

For more than fifteen years, frontline workers in the Netherlands have facilitated civic
initiatives by practicing a 'modest approach'that can be seen as an example of democratic …

It is often challenging to establish a good relationship between the green initiatives of urban
citizens and local governments. Our aim is to gain a better understanding of how citizens …

Recent decades have seen the emergence of the popular missional 'church-in-the-
neighbourhood'discourse in churches and among individual Christians in the West. It …

Public space is increasingly developed and managed by actors other than local
governments, ranging from citizens to corporations. This article investigates the role of local …

The current retrenchment of European welfare states is putting more emphasis on citizen
participation as an alternative for public services. This study examines differences in …

Active citizens who take initiative are generally regarded as desirable. However, the precise
reasons why citizens' initiatives are considered valuable and what their value consists of …