Abstract Megaprojects are increasingly common across countries and attract substantial political attention from a variety of actors. Recent studies have highlighted the need to move an understanding megaprojects as linear rational processes towards more nuanced approach that accounts for non-linear conflictual aspects. Participatory governance is often proposed valuable resource in this regard....

In some policy areas such as urban planning, waste management or environmental policy widespread demands for citizen participation have been met in the last twenty years or so. Participation has become a prominent means of social inclusion. Recently, the participatory discourse has entered the till then highly expert-oriented debates over science and technology policymaking. In the field of tec...

Spatial planning as a field in continuous transition needs way of working that allows for questioning its professional practice. In this paper, we focus on the design 4-days long ‘studios’ professionals aim to reflect new notions democratic practice and participatory planning. During these studios, different methods enhance collective reflective attitude among participants were tested. The pape...

A global ‘associational revolution’ appears to be underway in many parts of the world and the rise of private voluntary organizations is beginning to have significant impacts on many nations’ democratic governance (Salamon, 1993; Kim, 2003). The rise of third sector organizations (TSOs) or non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the decline of nationstates are changing not only the way societ...

This paper aims to explore democratic values in higher education pedagogies, as related to an Early Childhood Studies (ECS) degree course in an English university. It seeks to find out what constitutes a multi-disciplinary course from both student and tutor perspectives. It is contextualised by the concepts of participation embedded in the idea of multiprofessional team work, in order to establ...

Extending an emerging body of work documenting the migration of technical production models into other domains of social activity, this article analyzes how “open source” works at the levels of both practice and ideology. Through interviews and analysis of public documents relating to Howard Dean’s run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2003–2004, this article reveals how many Intern...