The Swedish public inquiries and most of the political science advocate reforms in the spirit of participatory democracy to strengthen the democracy. Although it is striking how limited and narrow the scientific documentation is in analysing the effects of participatory democratic reforms. Still, many of the local governments in Sweden are reshaping their organisations according to the participatory democracy model. Is it a trend and a symbolic action or a veritable action of good-will of the politicians? The paper argues that the idea of participatory democracy has become popular and widely spread. This can be explained both in an instrumental and in a symbolic perspective. This case study of why and on which ground Lund was inspired to re...
Abstract Particiapation from the citizens in a democratic society is one of the ground pilars for th...
The aim of this essay is to study the development of democracy in the Halland province, with focus o...
Abstract In the beginning of 2007 the Swedish municipality Örebro decided to have a democratic exper...
In response to the challenges that modern societies pose for citizen participation in representative...
The health of political parties and representative democratic institutions have been extensively que...
Political participation is promoted as a central component in a democracy. But what specifically is ...
The paper examines the view of popular movements as the hallmark of Swedish democracy, looking at ho...
This thesis is using the theory of participatory democracy to show how one can work to increase the ...
The main purpose of this study is to investigate to what extent municipalities in Sweden use democra...
From a democratic point of view the existing organisation with municipality sections in the city of ...
For the better part of a century, a distinguishing feature of the Swedish democratic model has been ...
There is no given answer to the question how participatory democracy activities affects the represen...
The aim of this essay is to explore the possibilities of achieving a stronger local democratic estab...
In 2002 the local council of Lund, Sweden, decides to implement the UN Convention of the Rights of t...
The aim of this study is to investigate wether the participatory democracy is a threat or a compleme...
Abstract Particiapation from the citizens in a democratic society is one of the ground pilars for th...
The aim of this essay is to study the development of democracy in the Halland province, with focus o...
Abstract In the beginning of 2007 the Swedish municipality Örebro decided to have a democratic exper...
In response to the challenges that modern societies pose for citizen participation in representative...
The health of political parties and representative democratic institutions have been extensively que...
Political participation is promoted as a central component in a democracy. But what specifically is ...
The paper examines the view of popular movements as the hallmark of Swedish democracy, looking at ho...
This thesis is using the theory of participatory democracy to show how one can work to increase the ...
The main purpose of this study is to investigate to what extent municipalities in Sweden use democra...
From a democratic point of view the existing organisation with municipality sections in the city of ...
For the better part of a century, a distinguishing feature of the Swedish democratic model has been ...
There is no given answer to the question how participatory democracy activities affects the represen...
The aim of this essay is to explore the possibilities of achieving a stronger local democratic estab...
In 2002 the local council of Lund, Sweden, decides to implement the UN Convention of the Rights of t...
The aim of this study is to investigate wether the participatory democracy is a threat or a compleme...
Abstract Particiapation from the citizens in a democratic society is one of the ground pilars for th...
The aim of this essay is to study the development of democracy in the Halland province, with focus o...
Abstract In the beginning of 2007 the Swedish municipality Örebro decided to have a democratic exper...