Participatory Democratic Innovations in Southeast Europe : : How to Engage in Flawed Democracies.

• Author: Fiket, Irena.
• TeilnehmendeR: Markov, Čedomir.; Ilić, Vujo.; Drasko, Gazela Pudar.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (253 pages)

"This volume strengthens the dialogue between conceptual perspectives, approaches, and fields on deliberative and participatory forms of democratic innovation and offers novel insights, focusing on the Southeast European space. Traditional forms of participation seem insufficient in satisfying the growing complexity of the democratic processes, especially in the context of autocratizing societies. It is crucial to examine the possibilities of democratic innovation in political research and practice, trying to establish a connection between the possibilities and limits of representative democracy, and social movements as possible carriers of the process of democratic innovation. This book offers novel insights into practices of civil society and social movements and their pathways carved to initiate a deep change in political thinking and practice and compelling insights for scholars and students of Southeast Europe, social movements and democracy"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Part 1 -- Context of the participatory democratic innovations in Southeast Europe -- Social movements, active citizenship and democratic innovation: an overview / Nenad Markovikl, Ivan Damjanovski and Zoran Ilievski -- Participation, responsiveness, interaction: The importance of epistemic checks-and- balances for the revitalization of democratic institutions / Andrija Soc -- Political participation in Southeast Europe: A scoping review -- Vujo Ilić and Čedomir Markov -- Part 2 -- Social movements and civil society experimentation -- Towards the democratization of urban planning: A case study of three deliberative forums in Belgrade / Jovana Timotijević and Iva Čukić -- Heterotopia, social movements and democratic innovation: The case of AKC Metelkova Mesto in Ljubljana, Slovenia / Nathan Siegrist -- Enacting resistance, performing citizenship: Trajectories of political subjectification in the post-democratic condition / Bojan Baća -- Agonist reading of social movements in illiberal democracies: The case of the social movement for truth and justice / Jasmin Hasanović, Valida Repovac Nikšić and Emina Adilović -- Part 3 -- Towards institutional politics -- Yugoslav self-management as a model of participatory municipal governance? -- Local communities in Belgrade in the 1980s -- Mladen Ostojic -- Norming participatory practices of movement parties in Southeast Europe / Irena Fiket, Gazela Pudar Drasko and Jelena Vasiljević -- Democratic innovations in an illiberal landscape: Three ideas from Hungary / Eszter Kovacs Szitkay, Daniel Oross, and Boldizsár Szentgáli-Toth.