Browsing by Author "Bua, Adrian"

Agenda Setting and Democratic Innovation: The Case of the Sustainable Communities Act (2007)

Participatory-deliberative processes and public policy agendas: lessons for policy and practice

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. ...

Realising Online Democracy: A Critical Appraisal of "Online Civic Commons"

Bua, Adrian (Article)

Scale and Policy Impact in Participatory and Deliberative Democracy: Lessons from a Multi-Level Process

Bua, Adrian (Article)

The Urban Governance of Austerity in Europe

Bua, Adrian; Davies, Jonathan S.; Cortina-Oriol, M.; 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, M. (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 ...