Rethinking Participatory Governance and Social Movements

Abstract

The global financial crash and austerity policies unleashed a phenomenal expansion of protest movements, many of which called for a deeper democratisation of political systems through greater participation (Tormey 2016). An important part of this has been the development of radicalised forms of particiaptory governance (Bua et al 2018), this “second wave” (Sintomer 2018) of participatory democracy has been labelled “democracy-driven governance” (Bua and Bussu, under review). One of the main points of difference with “governance-driven democracy” (Warren 2013), its first wave predecessor, is that it draws inspiration from, and interacts with, these new social movements. Whilst it is well establihsed that this has often made it take a more critical stance towards representative democracy and the neoliberal tenets underpinning current democratic systems, there is a pressing need to analyse more closely the relationship between social movement actors and the forms of participatory governance that have been developed often in direct response to their concerns. This panel invites papers that take both an empirical and theoretical perspective on the relationship between social movements and participatory governance, whether in historical or contemporary perspective.

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