This review article explores some of the key concepts, trends, and approaches in
contemporary urban governance research. Based on a horizon scan of recent literature and …

This paper reviews the various connections that can exist between the design of
participatory processes and the different kind of results that they can entail. It details how …

Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all
cities have developed opportunities for citizen involvement in strategic planning. The World …

This symposium examines the challenges and opportunities of recent efforts at embedding
participatory governance. It draws together original research that engages theoretically and …

Scholars of participatory democracy have long noted dynamic interactions and
transformations within and between political spaces that can foster (de) democratisation. At …

While there is an extensive subfield in sociology studying the sources, content, and
consequences of collective memory, the study of future projections has been much more …

In the decade following the housing crisis, Americans remain enthusiastic about the
prospect of owning a home. Homeownership is a symbol of status attainment in the United …

Democratic innovation has become a buzzword. Despite the rapid increase in popularity of
the term, amongst academics and practitioners, there is limited agreement about what …

Standing out from all other books on direct democracy, Citizenship and Contemporary Direct
Democracy connects the study of direct democracy to the broader field of comparative …

Since the 1960s, participatory discourses and techniques have been at the core of
decisionmaking processes in a variety of sectors of society and of policy domains around the …