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1	Demokratiförnyelse på lokal nivå : En studie av kommunala demokratiinnovationer / Democratic renewal : A Study of Democratic innovations in Swedish Municipalities Olofsson, Marcus January 2015 (has links) The main purpose of this study is to investigate to what extent municipalities in Sweden use democratic innovations to include citizens in the decision making process. Along there are three research questions: • What different forms of democracy innovations are Swedish municipalities applying in order to increase the civic participation between elections and what forms are dominant? • What potential influence in decision-making are citizens getting through these democratic innovations based on the results? • Based on the results – in what ways is the democracy innovations used in municipalities challenging representative democracy? The method used to fulfill the purpose and answer the research questions is a web survey including 287 of 290 (in total) municipal websites. The theoretic framework includes a model which is called “Smith’s ladder of participation” and is influenced by the research of Graham Smith and Sherry Arnstein. The ladder illustrates four categories of democratic innovations together with the potential influence by citizens in the decision making process. This model later serves as guideline in conducting the web survey and is used to present and in analyzing the result along with democratic theories. The results in this study show that the innovations used by municipalities to include citizens in the decision making process is concentrated to the lowest level in the participation ladder and the consultative innovations is by far the most common forms of participation in which citizens can influence the decision-making between elections. This means that citizens mainly acts as respondents in the decision making process in general and according to the results in this study it seems to be rather few municipalities who offer their residents opportunities in terms of decision making. The lack of innovations found in the highest level in the participation ladder suggests that representative democratic isn´t challenged in a way where elected representatives delegates power in decision making to citizens. Demokratiförnyelse demokratiutveckling demokratiinnovationer kommuner lokal nivå mellanvalsdemokrati
2	Demokratisk innovation eller ett spel för gallerierna? : En demokratiteoretisk utvärdering av Participatory Budgeting i en svensk kommun Carlsson, Fredrik January 2014 (has links) The aim of this thesis is to explore the institutional design of Participatory Budgeting (PB) in Sweden and how the design may contribute to realize central democratic goods. The study records the different PB experiences in Sweden and focuses on one particular case, which is the only case that successfully qualifies as a genuine PB-process according to international standards and definitions. To examine this, the following questions are asked: which municipalities in Sweden have implemented Participatory Budgeting? How can the institutional design of Participatory Budgeting be described and to what extent does it enable the realization of central democratic goods? To what extent does the institutional design enable the realization of the democratic goods inclusion, popular control, considered judgment and transparency? To what extent does the institutional design enable the realization of the institutional goods of efficiency and transferability? The study is based on an institutional theory of democracy. The method used is a mixed method ideal type analysis that combines document analysis, surveys and interviews. The results of the study indicates that the PB-institutions has multiple flaws regarding the way it enables the realization of numerous of the democratic goods analyzed. The institutional design does not pay enough attention to inclusion of different social groups including marginalized groups, popular control is restricted to issues of low political salience and the PB process does not live up to the transparency level expected from a democratic institution. On the other hand, the institutional design of the PB process does take into account some aspects of inclusion among the youth inhabitants and the process has been effective in the sense that it has delivered physical results quickly. Participatory Budgeting institutional design democracy participation political science deliberative democracy democratic goods local democracy participative democracy political participation budgeting e-democracy youth participation medborgarbudget institutionell design demokrati medborgardialog statsvetenskap kommun deliberativ demokrati ideal skl kommuner lokal demokrati e-demokrati inkludering folklig kontroll transparens svensk politik kommunal demokrati samtalsdemokrati mellanvalsdemokrati politiskt deltagande ungdomsdelaktighet legitimitet stadsplanering stadsbyggnad kommunpolitik

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Demokratiförnyelse på lokal nivå : En studie av kommunala demokratiinnovationer / Democratic renewal : A Study of Democratic innovations in Swedish Municipalities

Demokratisk innovation eller ett spel för gallerierna? : En demokratiteoretisk utvärdering av Participatory Budgeting i en svensk kommun