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Licensed Commoning and the Authoritarian Commons: Governing Participation in China's Community Gardens

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT China's environmental governance transition combines intensified vertical accountability and performance‐based management with expanding calls for public participation. However, despite growing demand for civic engagement, there remains limited understanding of how participatory environmental initiatives are structured and governed in practice.
Linjun Xie, Mengqi Shao, Gaohan Deng
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Governing Positive Energy Districts: The Role of Legitimation and Identity Across Residential and Industrial Contexts

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increasing electricity demand from data centres, industrial applications, electric vehicles and domestic heating is creating pressure to develop electricity systems in many parts of the world, but especially in Western countries. In response to challenges such as grid congestion, interconnection queues and climate‐related hazards, network ...
Jussi Valta, Tuomas Vanhanen, Tuomo Joensuu, Saku Mäkinen   +3 more
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Orchestration of Climate Action in Municipalities: A Collective Capacity Approach

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Municipalities are increasingly positioned as key actors in enabling local climate action, yet their ability to mobilise societal actors remains insufficiently understood. This study examines how municipal officials in six Finnish municipalities from different local contexts understand and operationalise collective capacity for climate action,
Maija Faehnle, Hanna Nieminen, Jani P. Lukkarinen   +2 more
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Designing Digital Voting Systems for Citizens: Achieving Fairness and Legitimacy in Participatory Budgeting

Digital Government: Research and Practice
Participatory Budgeting (PB) has evolved into a key democratic instrument for resource allocation in cities. Enabled by digital platforms, cities now have the opportunity to let citizens directly propose and vote on urban projects, using different voting input and aggregation rules.
Joshua Chu-Yue Yang, Carina I. Hausladen, Dominik Peters, Evangelos Pournaras, Regula Hänggli Fricker, Dirk Helbing   +5 more
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Letting People in: Redefining Collaboration in Wildland–Urban Interface Governance

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Intensifying wildfire regimes and expanding human settlements into wilderness areas have heightened concerns about the wildland–urban interface (WUI) due to the associated increase in fire risk. However, the WUI presents broader social‐ecological challenges that go beyond wildfire risk and remain understudied.
Clara Mosso, Harrison Fried, Karissa Courtney, Jonathan Salerno, Stephanie Kampf, Andrea Baudoin Farah   +5 more
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What is driving the increasing presence of citizen participation initiatives? [PDF]

Nowadays, there is an imperative for governments to be more responsive to community needs and public sector modernization programmes are introducing opportunities for citizen participation.
Ana Yetano, Basisilo Acerete, Sonia Royo
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Citizen-centred design of participatory budgeting: a transnational study in the Baltic sea region

, 2022
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Schult, Hans-Henning, Haustein, Ellen, Lorson, Peter C., Burbulytė-Tsiskarishvili, Gabrielė, Dvorak, Jaroslav, Sinervo, Lotta-Maria, Kurkela, Kaisa, Trutnev, Dmitrii   +7 more
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Digital Rights Activism in Multilevel Governance

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Multilevel governance (MLG) without a clear hierarchical structure can create power imbalances among various actors, particularly in settings with overlapping jurisdictions and policy areas. This dynamic is especially pronounced in Internet governance, which faces a complex interplay of domestic laws, state interdependence, and heightened ...
Alison Harcourt
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PARTICIPATORY BUDGETS AND THEIR LEVEL OF CITIZEN SATISFACTION IN THE PARISH GADS

REVISTA CIENTÍFICA MULTIDISCIPLINARIA ARBITRADA "YACHASUN"
DOI: https://doi.org/10.46296/yc.v10i18.0825 Resumen El presupuesto participativo constituye un mecanismo fundamental de la democracia participativa, permitiendo a los ciudadanos incidir directamente en el gasto público. En Ecuador, los Gobiernos Autónomos Descentralizados Parroquiales Rurales representan el nivel de gobierno más cercano a la población,
Chiquito-Tigua, Gloria Pascuala, Pinargote-Parraga, Genesis Lucia   +1 more
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Through the looking glass: the effect of participation in a participatory budget on citizens’ populist attitudes

European Political Science Review
AbstractMany citizens feel excluded from political decision-making, which, in their eyes, is dominated by an unresponsive political elite. Citizens with high populist attitudes perceive the world through a populist ‘lens’ and therefore yearn for more popular control and for ‘the people’ to be included in the political process.
Marie-Isabel Theuwis, Rosa Kindt
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