This article aims to analyze Equity Promotion Policies in Health implemented by the Ministry of Health for vulnerable groups, through the Department of Strategy and Participative Management based on race, ethnicity, gender and lifestyle markers. The three structural elements of these policies are identified as: participatory management, transversality and awareness / professional qualifications...

Developing the next generation of advanced computing systems will change the patterns of work in software system development organizations. Based on empirical studies of how new computing systems are developed, we find that major system engineering problems require organizational solutions rather than just technical solutions. We continue to investigate organizational settings where large softw...

The expansion of public bureaucracy has been one the most significant developments that marked societies, particularly Western liberal democratic societies. Growing political apathy, citizen disgruntlement and ensuing decline in electoral participation reflects nature governance failures. Public bureaucracy, which historically saddled with derogatory pejorative connotations, encountered fierce ...

Abstract Citizens that tend to experience political exclusion are often more supportive of direct and participatory forms decision-making. We empirically verify two competing explanatory logics for such high support: the “anti-establishment” logic, which expects politically excluded citizens unconditionally express support than their fellow democratic innovations (DIs); “instrumental” only DIs ...

This article attempts to shed new light on prevailing puzzles of spatial scales in multi-level, participatory governance as regards the democratic legitimacy and environmental effectiveness of governance systems. We focus on the governance re-scaling by the European Water Framework Directive, which introduced new governance scales (mandated river basin management) and demands consultation of ci...

In recent years, in response to the increasing unaffordability of housing, many European countries have seen a renewed interest forms housing that emphasise elements cooperation, self-organisation, and sharing (of space, organisation, or ownership between households). Czech Republic, we recently identified first efforts some municipalities smaller groups citizens transpose this 'housing innovat...

Children & SocietyEarly View ORIGINAL ARTICLEOpen Access Participatory budgeting for young people as democratic socialisation: An approach to the case of Spain Gonzalo Pardo-Beneyto, Corresponding Author Pardo-Beneyto [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0001-7142-1740 Department Constitutional Law, Political and Administrative Sciences, Faculty Universitat de València, Correspondence Av. dels Ta...

In the context of local civic governance, much of the interest in eParticipation concerns the extent to which online media might overcome the limitations of geography and scale, and so allow local interests to be better represented in institutionally driven participatory processes at national or regional level. In contrast, this study investigates the online deliberations of a local, geographic...

We examine the origins of the recent shift towards “e-government” in three cases: the United States, Britain, and the European Union. We set out three heuristic models of interaction between states and citizens that might underpin the practice of “e-government.” Focusing on U.S., British, and European Union initiatives, we undertake a comparative analysis of the evolution of key policy statemen...

— Historically, local rural governments in India have enjoyed very limited powers and citizens have been afforded very few opportunities to shape local development. In 1996, the state government of Kerala initiated the ‘‘People’s Campaign for Decentralized Planning’’ devolving new authority and resources to panchayats and mandating structures and processes designed to maximize the direct involv...