Browsing by Author "Bua, Adrian"
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Agenda Setting and Democratic Innovation: The Case of the Sustainable Communities Act (2007)
Bua, Adrian (Article)This article suggests that a common feature among democratic innovations is the lack of an agenda setting function. First, it argues that a lack of control over their own agendas opens democratic innovations to manipulation ... -
Democratic innovations and the policy process
Bua, Adrian (Book chapter)This chapter situates democratic innovation within broader processes of institutional change in public administration and develops the argument that they have vulnerable potential to act as a democratising force, through ... -
Participatory-deliberative processes and public policy agendas: lessons for policy and practice
Bua, Adrian; Escobar, Oliver (Article)Participatory and deliberative processes have proliferated over recent decades in public administration. These seek to increase the effectiveness and democratic quality of policy making by involving citizens in policy. ... -
The Urban Governance of Austerity in Europe
Bua, Adrian; Davies, Jonathan S.; Cortina-Oriol, Mercè; Blanco, I.; Chorianopoulos, I.; Feandeiro, A.; Gaynor, N.; Griggs, Steven; Howarth, D.; Salazar, Y (Book chapter)The 2008 financial crash and ensuing austerity have brought critical perspectives on political economy into academic debates in democratic theory and public administration. One important area of contention regards ... -
Why is Austerity Governable? A Gramscian Urban Regime Analysis of Leicester, UK
Davies, Jonathan S.; Bua, Adrian; Thompson, Ed; Cortina-Oriol, Mercè (Article)Austerity has been delivered in the UK, without durably effective resistance. Read through a dialogue between Urban Regime Theory and Gramsci’s theory of the integral state, the paper considers how austerity was normalised ...