Publication
Title
The democratising capacity of new municipalism : beyond direct democracy in public- common partnerships
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Abstract
New municipalism, in its endeavour to democratise urban politics and policy, employs innovative strategies including public-common partnerships, which seek to support citizens in self -managing public goods and services. Proponents of new municipalism claim that these partnerships have a democratising capacity, as self -management is seen as an expression of direct democracy. In this article we examine this democratising capacity. By adopting an abductive methodology, the article analyses a case of a public-common partnership, the Citizen Assets programme promoted by Barcelona en Comu in Barcelona, Spain. The research findings show that the Citizen Assets programme does have a democratising capacity. However, democratisation is not achieved exclusively through self -management, which itself needs to be democratised, but by integrating different modalities of democratisation into the policy process, namely co -production and democratic control. Theorising this integration as a 'non -appropriable' form of policy making, the article makes an original contribution to research on democratisation in the context of a specific new municipalism-inspired policy programme.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Policy and politics / University of Bristol. School for Advanced Urban Studies. - Bristol, 1972, currens
Publication
Bristol : Policy press , 2024
ISSN
0305-5736 [print]
1470-8442 [online]
DOI
10.1332/03055736Y2024D000000033
Volume/pages
(2024) , 20 p.
ISI
001186850500001
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UAntwerpen
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Research group
Project info
A new frontier in EU urban policy-making: commons-inspired co-production arrangements (COMMONCITY).
Publication type
Subject
Law 
Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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Creation 02.05.2024
Last edited 08.05.2024
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