Participatory Democracy and Collaborative Governance: Do the Two Join Forces (Against the State)?

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-52
Author(s):  
Gayil Talshir
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
The State

The Interplay between the State, the Market, and Culture in Shaping Civil Society: A Case Study of the People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy in South Korea

2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 479-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seungsook Moon
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
The State ◽  
Cultural Relativism ◽  
Voluntary Association ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
New Type ◽  
Relative Decline ◽  
And Gender

After the formal end of military rule in the late 1980s, a new type of voluntary association commonly called “citizens' organizations” emerged in Korean civil society. Pursuing progressive social change through legal and policy reforms, citizens' organizations became the voice of revived civil society in urban Korea and enjoyed public trust until the mid-2000s, when their influence began to wane. Using in-depth interviews and fieldwork data on the People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD), one of the most influential citizens' organizations, this paper examines how the specific social meanings of civil society informed the roles that the state and the market played in the rise and relative decline of the PSPD and how class and gender affected individual access to it. This focus on the interplay among culture, the state, and the market enables us to move beyond cultural relativism and liberal universalism concerning the theoretical and empirical debate on civil society.

scholarly journals THE STATE OF GREEN SPACES IN KUMASI CITY (GHANA): LESSONS FOR OTHER AFRICAN CITIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Collins ADJEI MENSAH
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
The State ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Attitudinal Change ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Poor State ◽  
Development Agendas

Integrating green spaces such as parks and gardens into the physical landscape of cities has been identified to enhance the health and wellbeing of urban dwellers. This paper assesses the state of green spaces in Kumasi city (Ghana), once known as the garden city of West Africa. Using a case study approach, a mixture of qualitative research techniques were employed whilst a set of eight themes were put together to guide the assessment. In all, green spaces were found to be in poor state. With the exception of conservation and heritage theme, the remaining seven themes that were used for the assessment all found the green spaces to be in poor state. It is therefore recommended that there should be an attitudinal change towards the maintenance of green spaces, the application of a collaborative governance approach, and priority giving to green spaces in all development agendas by city authorities.

scholarly journals Collaborative Governance for Affordable Housing in Toronto and Melbourne

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Carolyn Whitzman ◽  
Katrina Raynor ◽  
Louise Frost
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
The State ◽  
Shared Understanding ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Partnership Approach

Policy formation and implementation have largely shifted from a top-down government-led process, to a collaborative governance approach characterised by complex and opaque partnerships, weakly steered by the state.  We use 36 interviews, undertaken in Toronto and Melbourne between 2015 and 2018, to assess procedural accountability in these two cities: the extent to which policy outputs developed through a partnership approach are fair, transparent, rational, and intentional.  We find that both cities fail the basics of procedural accountability, and that there is little shared understanding amongst key partners – local and provincial/state policymakers, non-profit and private sector housing providers, and philanthropic and private sector finance providers – about the definition and missing quantum of affordable housing, let alone a sense of how to move forward.

Problems Relating to the Right to Information in Turkey

2019 ◽  
pp. 134-168
Author(s):  
Omur Aydin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Right To Information ◽  
The Right ◽  
Share Information

Traditionally, public administration has always preferred to work behind closed doors. However, the concept of participatory democracy, which developed especially after the 1950s, encouraged citizens to participate more in the decision-making mechanisms of the state. Turkey experiences many problems in exercising the right to information, which was enacted in 2003, arising from the administration's attitudes and behaviors and also from the legislation. Foremost among these are the fact that citizens have not been made sufficiently aware of this right and that the administration is reluctant to share information. An analysis of the data and statistics in Turkey shows a rising trend in the exercise of this right by citizens between 2004-2015. However, considering the size of Turkey's population, the rate can still be deemed low. Post-2015 figures show a radical decline in citizens' exercising of the right to information. This situation may be explained by the painful process that Turkey experienced from 2015 onwards and the state of emergency implementations that followed.

scholarly journals El discurso antagónico de la sexualidad y la participación ciudadana: el caso de las travestis prostitutas de Mártires, Bogotá

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Isabel Cristina Buriticá López
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
High Impact ◽  
The State ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Common Space ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Gender

Resumen: En el presente trabajo se analiza cómo las ex- periencias compartidas por las travestis prostitutas en un espacio común dentro de la ciudad de Bogotá, propician una serie de acciones colectivas dentro del marco de la participación ciudadana. A partir de algunas reflexiones sobre comunidad y democracia participativa, se estudian las luchas de las travestis, que se hacen posibles gracias al reconocimiento de la diversidad y la multiculturalidad de la Constitución de 1991. Sin embargo, la prostitución a menudo es vista como una invasión indebida del ám- bito público, que como tal produce rechazo. A pesar de la persecución que sufren debido a ello, las travestis que ejercen la prostitución se asociaron en la zona de Már- tires en la ciudad de Bogotá, logrando la creación de   la Zona de Alto Impacto en la localidad, mediante una publicización del conflicto, es decir una discusión y deli- beración en un espacio público generado por el Estado para conciliar algo previamente juzgado inconciliable. Dicha zona se convirtió así en el único sector de Bogotá que cuenta con permiso legal para funcionar como ámbi- to para actividades de prostitución, con lo cual se logra dignificar no sólo un oficio sino una identidad sexual y de género marginada.Palabras clave: travestis, prostitución, participación ciudadana, publicización, legalizaciónThe Antagonistic Discourse of Sexuality and Citizen Participation: The Case of Transvestite Prostitutes in MártiresAbstract: This paper analyzes how the sharing of experi- ences by transvestite prostitutes in a common space in Bogotá propitiates a series of collective actions in the framework of citizen participation. After some reflections about community and participatory democracy, we con-sider the struggles for recognition of the transvestites, made possible due to the recognition of diversity and multiculturality in the Constitution of 1991. However, prostitution is often seen as an undue invasion of the pub- lic space, which produces rejection. In spite of the perse- cution they suffer due to this, the transvestites who act as prostitutes in the Mártires area in Bogotá came together and achieved the creation of a Zone of High Impact, by means of publicization, i.e. a discussion in a public space generated by the State to conciliate what previously was judged irreconcilable. Thus this zone became the only sector in Bogotá where it is legal to work in prostitution, which makes it possible to dignify not only an activity but a sexual and gender identity that has been marginalized.Key Words: transvestites, prostitution, citizen participa- tion, publicization, legalization

scholarly journals A Need For New Relations Between The Third Sector And The State: An Examination Of The Case Of Immigration Settlement Services In Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor Elizabeth Margaret Morris
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
The State ◽  
The Third ◽  
Settlement Services ◽  
The Third Sector ◽  
Critical Literature

The purpose of this paper is to explore the need to restructure the relations between the Third Sector and the State. The case of Third Sector settlement services in Canada is examined this proposition. This paper takes the approach of a critical literature review to analyze the changing relationship between the Third Sector and the State in Canada from the early 1600’s to the contemporary era. This paper will demonstrate that the State has become restructured to follow neoliberal priorities thereby restricting settlement services and negatively impacting the integration of newcomers. The adoption of collaborative governance is proposed as a way to facilitate access to settlement programming that will support the development of partnerships, capacity-building and the sharing of best practices among settlement service providers. This paper is a call for action to Third Sector organizations and the State to begin to reconcile and strengthen their relationship to better serve newcomers to Canada.

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