Schools of Democracy
Subtitle: How Ordinary Citizens  Become Competent in Participatory Budgeting Institutions
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781907301186
Subjects: Democracy; Europe, politics and government
Description: Schools of democracy offers a vivid analysis of the long-term impact of engagement in participatory budgeting institutions in Europe. While democratic innovations flourish around the world, there have been great hopes for their potential to revitalize representative government and solve the increasing apathy of the public. Based on a rich ethnographic study in France, Italy and Spain, this book shows how participatory institutions can encourage personal involvement, by creating the procedural and social conditions conducive to the formation of a competent and involved citizenry.