Project: The changing face of local democracy? The impact of citizen participation on attitudes, roles, relationships and legitimacy perceptions of democratic institutional stakeholders

2021-01-01 – 2025-12-31

Abstract

New initiatives of citizen participation change the nature of local democracy. This research wants to bring a more comprehensive understanding of how participation has an impact on the roles of politicians, civil servants, citizens and civil society actors in the policy-making process, the relations between these actors, and the legitimacy of local democratic public policy making in the eyes of these actors.