Citizen voices and citizen inclusion

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What is citizenship? T.H. Marshall classic approach

Full and equal membership in a political community, citizenship in terms of vicil rights; political rights;social rights and citizenship as received.

Why is citizenship complecated?

Who can be a member and why? What is a community? Shifting ways to exercise political rights. Politics crossing state boundries.

What are the goals that can be met by participation?

Better problem solution, equity, democratization, more legitimacy, burden-sharing.

 

 

 

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Why does participation help with equity?

- participation for inclusion of citizens who otherwise have low influence on policy making - empowerment

- participation as reshaping relations between citizens/beneficiaries asn institusions - accountability, ownership

- participation as reshaping of citizen-expert relations - mutuality, learning, co-production

Why does participation help with democratization?

These are the intrinsic values of participation: Engagement, social capital building, capacity building

Why does participation help with more legitimacy?

- citizens influence as contributing to legitimacy

- stakeholders may develop a better understanding of each others views

- knowing stakes have been weighed, stakeholders may be more willing to accept decisions.

How does participation help with burden-sharing?

Sharing of responsability, room for citizens initiatives, responsibilization, cost-saving.

What are the challenges of achieving goals with participation?

better solutions - being truly open to different ideas

equity- invisible power, power holders not eager to give up power voluntarity

democratization - slow process, not wuickly fixed through projects

legitimacy - hard to achieve without actually giving citizens influence

burdensharing - conflicting ideas about who's responsible for what

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