TY - JOUR
T1 - Rethinking Democratic Innovations
T2 - A Look through the Kaleidoscope of Democratic Theory
AU - Asenbaum, Hans
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2021.
PY - 2021/10/20
Y1 - 2021/10/20
N2 - The study of democratic innovations has long been situated in the deliberative paradigm. Today, however, a new scholarly generation conceptualizes democratic innovations from various theoretical angles. This article reviews participatory, agonistic and transformative accounts of democratic innovations. This multiperspectival analysis presents democratic innovations in a new light. The term changes its meaning, going beyond institutions designed by experts to include the remaking of the structures that govern our everyday lives. Democratic innovations interrupt established modes of governance and create spaces for systemic transformations.
AB - The study of democratic innovations has long been situated in the deliberative paradigm. Today, however, a new scholarly generation conceptualizes democratic innovations from various theoretical angles. This article reviews participatory, agonistic and transformative accounts of democratic innovations. This multiperspectival analysis presents democratic innovations in a new light. The term changes its meaning, going beyond institutions designed by experts to include the remaking of the structures that govern our everyday lives. Democratic innovations interrupt established modes of governance and create spaces for systemic transformations.
KW - democratic innovations
KW - democratic theory
KW - perspectivism
KW - theory triangulation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85117466058&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/14789299211052890
DO - 10.1177/14789299211052890
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85117466058
SN - 1478-9302
VL - 20
SP - 680
EP - 690
JO - Political Studies Review
JF - Political Studies Review
IS - 4
ER -