Empowerment of rural communities in development is an extensive record of sustainable village development. This study examines the relationship between village community participation, good governance, and positive perceptions supporting village government performance. Taking the background of...

Citizen participation aims at resolving societal conflicts about sustainability policies. How citizens subjectively interpret and frame conflicts in citizen participation and how their frames impact policy design, is poorly understood. We address this gap by coding and analyzing citizens’...

The growing body of research on the relationship between the state and democracy has remained inconclusive both in terms of causal direction and sign. One key factor contributing to this inconclusiveness is the lack of precision in the conceptualization and measurement of democracy and state...