of Unit Committees in Promoting Popular Participation -- Chapter 8. Sub-National Structures, Poverty Reduction and Rural … Sustainable Local Development: Ghana’s Experiences -- Chapter 16. Strengthening Citizens’ Participation in Local Economic …

factors that condition democratic participation. During several research trips, conducted between 2001 and 2006, I collected … cases, I found a very wide gap between the de jure mandate of citizen participation and the de facto state of affairs. The … examined empirical cases point to some of the conditionalities of democratic participation at the local level. The existence of …

work of political theorist Olson, who theorizes how racism is ingrained in liberal democracy through the idea of ‘white … models of participation in planning, I analyse how ‘white democracy’ manifests in two of the most central approaches to … participation, communicative and agonistic planning perspectives. This is illustrated through the case of local citizens dialogues …

) avoidance of conflict that is understood as disruptive, (b) conflict as an occasion for participation and consensus building …

The current debate on agonism has become fixed in an institutional approach: How can an agonistic design …