SCALE AND POLICY IMPACT IN PARTICIPATORY‐DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY: LESSONS FROM A MULTI‐LEVEL PROCESS

• Published in: Public administration (London) Vol. 95; no. 1; pp. 160 - 177
• Main Author: BUA, ADRIAN
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2017
• Subjects: Criticism; Deliberative democracy; Democracy; Expectations; Public sector; United Kingdom > UK

This article addresses two interrelated critiques of participatory‐deliberative democratic institutions: that they are beset by problems of scale and that they achieve weak policy impact. This article tests these criticisms through the case of the UK Sustainable Communities Act (SCA), a multi‐level...