Code
01G00821
Duration
01 January 2021 → 31 December 2024
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor-spokesperson
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Social behaviour and social action
- Local and urban politics
- Political engagement, political participation
- Political psychology
- Democratic innovations
Keywords
Democracy
Citizen participation
Participatory arrangements
Roles of citizens, politicians and civil servants
Legitimacy of government and public policy-making
Project description
New initiatives of citizen participation change the nature of local democracy. This research wants to bring a more comprehensive understanding of how participation has an impact on the roles of politicians, civil servants, citizens and civil society actors in the policy-making process, the relations between these actors, and the legitimacy of local democratic public policy making in the eyes of these actors.