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The democratising capacity of new municipalism : beyond direct democracy in public- common partnerships
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Abstract
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| 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. |
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English
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Policy and politics / University of Bristol. School for Advanced Urban Studies. - Bristol, 1972, currens
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Publication
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Bristol
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Policy press
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2024
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ISSN
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0305-5736
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1470-8442
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DOI
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10.1332/03055736Y2024D000000033
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(2024)
, 20 p.
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001186850500001
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