Why Citizen Participation Succeeds or Fails

Matt Ryan is Associate Professor in Governance and Public Policy at the University of Southampton and a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow. He is founding Co-Director of the Centre for Democratic Futures, and Policy Director at the Web Science Institute.

• Part I 1. Understanding Participation as a Response to Democratic Deficits2. Participatory Budgeting: How Do We Understand Exceptional Democracy?3. From Exceptions to Cases of a Participatory Budgeting PhenomenonPart II4. Comparing Participation Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis5. What Participatory Democrats ExpectPart III6. Necessary Conditions for Democratic Reform7. Success: How Citizen Control of Politics is Achieved8. How Citizen Control of Politics is Negated, and the Puzzles that Remain9. Conclusion: Democratic Innovations after the Beginning

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