Join the online book launch of Reclaiming Participatory Governance. co-organized by the Participatory & Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association and People Powered, and featuring our team member, Greta Rios.
The book offers empirical and theoretical perspectives on how the relationship between social movements and state institutions is emerging and developing through new modes of participatory governance. The chapters in this volume capture the growing synergy between social movements’ mobilisations, the commons and participatory deliberative democracy, exploring how grassroots democratic action is mobilising to foster alternative forms of participatory politics and economics.
The authors of this volume assess how participatory governance is being transformed and explore the impact of such changes, providing timely critical reflections on: the constraints imposed by cultural, economic and political power relations on these new empowered participatory spaces; the potential of this new "wave" of participatory democracy to reimagine the relationship between citizens and traditional institutions towards more radical democratic renewal; where and how these new democratisation efforts sit within the representative state; and how tensions between the different demands of lay citizens, organised civil society and public officials are being managed.
Editors Adrian Bua and Sonia Bussu will be joined by some of the authors that contributed to the volume: Lucy Cathcart Froden, Paola Pierri and Nick Vlahos to discuss key themes emerging from the volume around the relationship between citizens and traditional institutions. Greta Rios (People Powered) will provide some reflections on the volume. Dr Temidayo Eseonu will chair this event.
A Zoom link will be provided following registration.