Democratic innovations and the policy process

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dc.cclicenceCC-BY-NC-NDen
dc.contributor.authorBua, Adrian
dc.date.acceptance2019-01-01
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-14T10:43:09Z
dc.date.available2020-01-14T10:43:09Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-05
dc.description.abstractThis chapter situates democratic innovation within broader processes of institutional change in public administration and develops the argument that they have vulnerable potential to act as a democratising force, through purposive institutional design. However, democratic innovations are a complement, rather than a substitute, for existing institutions, with which they interact in complex ways. The chapter focuses on the mechanisms through which the outputs of democratic innovation are transmitted to the policy process. The chapter argues that democratic innovations face two, competing, pressures. The first is technical and regards ensuring policy-making ‘reflexivity’ necessary for the efficient governance. The second is normative, and has to do with increasing levels of responsiveness necessary to ensure legitimacy. Different institutional designs for transmission mechanisms ‘fix’ the tension between reflexivity and responsiveness in different, and imperfect, ways. The chapter differentiates between three broad categories and illustrates how they operate using paradigmatic cases of democratic innovation.en
dc.funderNo external funderen
dc.identifier.citationBua, A. (2019) Democratic innovations and the policy process. In: Elstub, S. and Escobar, O. (Eds.) Handbook of Democratic Innovations and Governance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.4337/9781786433862
dc.identifier.isbn9781786433855
dc.identifier.urihttps://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/19029
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedNoen
dc.publisherEdward Elgaren
dc.researchinstituteCentre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA)en
dc.subjectPoliticsen
dc.subjectParticipationen
dc.subjectDemocracyen
dc.subjectPublic policyen
dc.subjectGovernanceen
dc.titleDemocratic innovations and the policy processen
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