Schools of democracy : how ordinary citizens (sometimes) become competent in participatory budgeting institutions
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Colchester : ECPR Press, 2011, ECPR monographs
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TALPIN, Julien, Schools of democracy : how ordinary citizens (sometimes) become competent in participatory budgeting institutions, Colchester : ECPR Press, 2011, ECPR monographs - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/21060
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Schools of Democracy offers a vivid analysis of the long-term impact of engagement in participatory budgeting institutions in Europe. While democratic innovations flourish around the world, there have been great hopes for their potential to revitalize representative government and solve the increasing apathy of the public. Based on a rich ethnographic study in France, Italy and Spain, this book shows how participatory institutions can encourage personal involvement, by creating the procedural and social conditions conducive to the formation of a competent and involved citizenry. Rather than deliberation itself, it seems that informal discussions and interactions between a diverse public allow mutual learning and the beginning of a political trajectory for people at the margins of the public sphere. However, this book also shows that citizens can become disappointed by the little decision-making power they are granted, as they leave the process often more cynical than before.
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List of Figures and Tables vi
List of Abbreviations vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction xi
Chapter One: Entering the Black Box of Civic Competence: A Pragmatist
Perspective on Self-change 1
Chapter Two: Power to the People? Three Participatory Budget Experiences
in Europe 31
Chapter Three: The Meanings of Public Engagement: How the Emergence of the
Participatory Grammar Reframes the Role of Good Citizen 67
Chapter Four: Participatory Democracy and its Public 99
Chapter Five: Much Ado About Nothing? Why and how Public Deliberation
Hardly Change People 133
Chapter Six: Becoming a Good Citizen by Participating 159
Conclusion 191
Appendix: Towards a Comparative Ethnographic Method 197
Bibliography 201
Index 221
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Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2007