Participatory urban governance, with its focus on citizen representation and the equitable distribution of resources, has been implemented globally to deepen democracy. Some individuals position themselves as voluntary representatives, or brokers, between the state and their fellow citizens. In this article I analyse the increasingly important and largely informal roles of such brokers in participatory urban governance. Informed by my research in Brazil and the Netherlands, this article explores how brokers position themselves in administrative schemes and how they operate both in and out of officially sanctioned channels and institutions. In general, the scholarly debate on brokerage within participatory governance is divided into two argu...
Despite considerable literature exploring Brazil’s participatory management, less academic attention...
Brokerage, a term prominent in the 1960s and 1970s, has returned. A huge literature analyses how bro...
In scholarship on informal politics in Brazil, clientelism is a well-studied phenomenon. While studi...
Participatory urban governance, with its focus on citizen representation and the equitable distribut...
Participatory urban governance, with its focus on citizen representation and the equitable distribut...
Contains fulltext : 204137.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)This article ap...
In many global South cities, informal hawkers occupy public spaces to earn a living. They often face...
How people in a city should be governed has been discussed since ancient philosophy. The complexity ...
What is the role of market actors in recent urban transformations? To what extent do market actors a...
Broker is a term widely used in political science, and the other social sciences, to describe an inf...
This study is about citizenship and informality in megacities. The percentage of the world populatio...
Ce chapitre d'ouvrage constitue une version largement modifiée et raccourcie d'une communication dan...
This article further theorizes exemplary practitioners’ roles in neighborhood governance by building...
This article contributes to the theoretical discussion about the crucial position of entrepreneurs a...
Dans un contexte national de transfert des compétences à l’échelon intercommunal, de diminution de l...
Despite considerable literature exploring Brazil’s participatory management, less academic attention...
Brokerage, a term prominent in the 1960s and 1970s, has returned. A huge literature analyses how bro...
In scholarship on informal politics in Brazil, clientelism is a well-studied phenomenon. While studi...
Participatory urban governance, with its focus on citizen representation and the equitable distribut...
Participatory urban governance, with its focus on citizen representation and the equitable distribut...
Contains fulltext : 204137.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)This article ap...
In many global South cities, informal hawkers occupy public spaces to earn a living. They often face...
How people in a city should be governed has been discussed since ancient philosophy. The complexity ...
What is the role of market actors in recent urban transformations? To what extent do market actors a...
Broker is a term widely used in political science, and the other social sciences, to describe an inf...
This study is about citizenship and informality in megacities. The percentage of the world populatio...
Ce chapitre d'ouvrage constitue une version largement modifiée et raccourcie d'une communication dan...
This article further theorizes exemplary practitioners’ roles in neighborhood governance by building...
This article contributes to the theoretical discussion about the crucial position of entrepreneurs a...
Dans un contexte national de transfert des compétences à l’échelon intercommunal, de diminution de l...
Despite considerable literature exploring Brazil’s participatory management, less academic attention...
Brokerage, a term prominent in the 1960s and 1970s, has returned. A huge literature analyses how bro...
In scholarship on informal politics in Brazil, clientelism is a well-studied phenomenon. While studi...