Citizen voices and citizen inclusion
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What is citizenship? T.H. Marshall classic approach
Why is citizenship complecated?
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?
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?
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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