PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY IN SOUTHERN EUROPE

Citizen participation is a central component of democratic governance. As participatory schemes have grown in number and gained in s ocial legitimacy over recent years, the research community has analyzed the virtues of participatory policies from several points of view, but usually giving focus to the most successful and well-known grass-roots cases. This book examines a wider range of partici patory interventions that have been created or legitimized by central governments, providing original exploration of institutional d emocrati...[Read more]