
By Joan Font,Donatella della Porta,Yves Sintomer
Looking at an important number of subnational examples throughout Italy, Spain and France, the e-book interrogates the wealthy findings of a considerable learn venture. The authors use quantitative and qualitative easy methods to examine why those instances of participatory mechanisms have emerged, how they functionality, and what cultural effect they’ve completed. this enables hugely unique insights into why participatory mechanisms paintings in a few areas, yet no longer others, and the kinds of selections that organizers of participatory procedures need to think of whilst growing such rules.
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