Between empowerment and abuse
Citizen Participation Beyond the Post-Democratic Turn
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6254271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Felix Butzlaff (0000-0001-6247-3194, Vienna University of Economics and Business, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 477-493 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Democratization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1351-0347 • E-ISSN: 1743-890X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13510347.2019.1707809 |
| OpenAlex | W3005207470 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 38 |
In this special issue on "Democratization beyond the Post-Democratic Turn. Political Participation between Empowerment and Abuse", we have explored changing understandings of participation in contemporary Western representative democracies through the analytical lens of the concept of the post-democratic-turn. We have investigated technology-based, market-based, and expert-led innovations that claim to enhance democratic participation and to provide policy legitimation. In this concluding article, I revisit the cases made by the individual contributors and analyse how shifting notions of participation alter dominant understandings of democracy. I carve out how new and emerging ideas of participation are based on different understandings of political subjectivity; furthermore, how constantly rising democratic expectations and simultaneously increasing scepticism with regard to democratic processes and institutions point to a growing democratic ambivalence within Western societies. Making use of Dahl's conceptualization of democracy, in this article, I review changing understandings of participation in light of their contribution to further democratization. The article shows how under post-democratic conditions the simulative performance of autonomy and subjectivity has become central to democratic participation. It emphasizes that what in established perspectives on democratization might appear as an abuse of participation, through the lens of a post-democratic-turn might be perceived as emancipatory and liberating
Autonomy · Conceptualization · Democracy · Democratization · Empowerment · Legitimation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Social Media and Politics
Reframing public participation
Against Democracy
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The neoliberal city and the pro-active complicity of the citizen consumer
The March Towards Post‐Democracy, Ten Years On
How Will Capitalism End
A conceptual map of political participation
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The continuous expansion of citizen participation
Political participation and three theories of democracy
What is democracy? A reconceptualization of the quality of democracy
A third wave of autocratization is here
The Representative Claim
Political Trust and Trustworthiness
Participatory Democracy Revisited
Libertarian Paternalism Is Not an Oxymoron
Singularity
The governance of unsustainability
The Great Regression
Rethinking Populism
The Cultural Capital of Consumption
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |