Public administrators in interactive democracy

A Multi-Paradigmatic Approach

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6303737
AutoresEva Sørensen (0000-0003-4845-9665, Roskilde University, autor de correspondencia), Tina Øllgaard Bentzen (0000-0002-4181-7442, Roskilde University), Tina Bentzen
Año2020
Volumen46
Número1
Páginas139-162
Fecha de publicación2020-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLocal Government Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0300-3930 • E-ISSN: 1743-9388
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03003930.2019.1627335
OpenAlexW2943428131
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas42

Currently, interactive forms of democracy that bring local politicians into dialogue and collaboration with relevant and affected citizens are mushrooming. While some research has investigated how interactive democracy affects citizens and politicians, we know little about what interactive democracy means for public administrators. This article presents the results of a case study of role perceptions and coping strategies among public administrators assisting a new type of interactive political committee in two Nordic municipalities. Guided by a multi-paradigmatic conceptual framework featuring public administrators’ roles and coping strategies in interactive governance, the study shows that individual public administrators identify with different administrative roles, and that political and administrative leadership sentiments condition their choice of coping strategies. Moreover, the coping strategy that public administrators select to handle intra- and inter-paradigmatic role dilemmas can have dire consequences for the interplay between interactive democracy and local representative government

Democracy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · E-Government and Public Services · Law · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research · Social Media and Politics