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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 politi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Griggs, Steven, 1962-, Norval, Aletta J., Wagenaar, H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Democracy, Conflict and Participation in Decentred Governance; The Shift from Government to Governance?; Practices of Governance and Practices of Freedom; Understanding Decentred Governance; The Primacy of Practice; Bringing the Political Back in: Acknowledging the Deep Pluralism of Contemporary Society; Democracy as Practices of Governance and Freedom; Reframing Democracy; The Contributions to This Book; 2 Governance-Driven Democratization; Introduction.
  • The Domain of Governance-Driven Democratization3 Deliberative, Agonistic and Aversive Grammars of Democracy: The Question of Criteria; Introduction; The Question of Criteria: What Is at Stake?; The Status and Implications of Criteria in Deliberative Accounts; Poststructuralism and Criteria; The Emergence of Claims: Rancière; Laclau and Mouffe: A Hegemonic Approach to Radical Democracy; Mouffe's Agonistic Account of Democracy; Poststructuralism and the Status of Criteria; Aversive Democracy; Criteria: A Wittgensteinian Approach.
  • 4 Designing Democratic Institutions for Decentred Governance: The Council of Europe's AcquisIntroduction; Designing Democracy: The Role of the Council of Europe; Governance and Democratic Institutions: Clarifying Concepts; The Process of Institutional Design: Shaping Constraints and Opportunities; Criteria for the Design of Democratic Institutions; The Acquis as an Instrument of Institutional Design; Conclusions; 5 Assessing the Democratic Anchorage of Governance Networks; Introduction; Governance Networks; The Democratic Anchorage of Governance Networks.
  • Anchorage in Democratically Elected PoliticiansAnchorage in the Membership Basis of Participating Groups and Organizations; Anchorage in a Territorially Defined Citizenry; Anchorage in Democratic Rules and Norms; Applying the Model; Conclusion; 6 Learning through Contested Governance: The Practice of Agonistic Intersubjectivity; Introduction; Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in a Neighbourhood Redevelopment Setting; Power, Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity; 7 Decentred Legitimacy in the New Community Governance; Introduction; Theorising Decentred Legitimacy; Decentred Legitimacy.
  • Norms of LegitimacyNeighbourhood Legitimacy in an English City; The Complex and Informal Practising of Legitimacy; Assessing the Legitimacy of Community Governance; 8 Designing 'the Political' in (and out of) Neighbourhood Governance; Introduction; Governance and Democratic Participation within Neighbourhoods; Redesigning Governance: Neighbourhood Policies in the United Kingdom; Designing Democratic Procedures; Designing in Democratic Conflict; Conclusion; 9 Participatory Governance in Practice; Introduction; Decentred Participatory Governance; The Case Study; Practices of Governance.