Democratic innovation for change: A participatory corrective to deliberative hegemony - Oliver Escobar, Adrian Bua, 2025 The world faces social, political, economic, and ecological crises, and there is doubt that democratic governance can cope. Democracies rely on a narrow set of ...

🤔 What's the point of democratic innovation? Can it address crurrent crises and build democracies for the future?
💡In this new article @adrianbua.bsky.social and I argue that the field needs to strengthen its change-making orientation and capacity. Open access 👉🏼 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

La llei que Catalunya té pendent En temps de desconfiança envers les institucions, parlar de participació ciutadana pot semblar una aposta arriscada. Però precisament per això cal més que mai disposar d’eines que enforteixin la democ...

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Catalunya té una assignatura pendent: aprovar la seva llei de participació ciutadana. www.ara.cat/opinio/llei-...
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Our aim is to reorient democratic innovation towards capacity-building, which requires power-sharing, economic democracy, and systemic ambition.
Read the article here:

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Pluriversality embracing ontological & epistemological diversity
Policy engaging more deeply with public administration and state theory
Political economy confronting structural inequalities and capitalist constraints
Empowerment building the material and collective capacities for democratic action

We argue that the field of democratic innovation has tilted too far toward a legitimacy-oriented, deliberative hegemony, and needs a participatory corrective to develop capacity for change making.
We identify four areas as exemplars:

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We ask what kind of democratic innovation can support change? Oliver had been working on the idea of a legitimacy<>capacity dyad in democratic theory, and I am immensely grateful he thought of me to help develop it!

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Just published an article w. @oliverescobar.bsky.social: "Democratic Innovation for Change: A Participatory Corrective to Deliberative Hegemony"

Read the article open access here (summary thread below)

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Is it time to rethink participatory democracy under urban capitalism? - LSE Review of Books Markus Holdo’s Participatory Spaces Under Urban Capitalism examines how citizens engage with and leverage power through participatory institutions in capitalist societies. The book is meticulously…

NEW ✨ Participatory Spaces Under Urban Capitalism: Contesting the Boundaries of Democratic Practices by @markusholdo.bsky.social @lund-university.bsky.social @comppollu.bsky.social

Review by @adrianbua.bsky.social @igopbcn.bsky.social @uab.cat

#Politics #Democracy

PDD Panel 1 - Paper 4

"The Field of Participation: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Participatory Democracy"

@adrianbua.bsky.social (@uab.cat ), Sadiya Akram, @sbussu.bsky.social (@unibirmingham.bsky.social), Patricia Garcia Espin (U Granada)

#PSA2025
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My review of @welpita.bsky.social "the Will of the People" where she analyses the relationship between democracy, participation and populism - bringing a sober look and much needed dose of realism to participation and democratization

The will of the people: populism and citizen participation in Latin America Published in Democratization (Ahead of Print, 2025)

🚀 Thrilled to see The Will of the People sparking debate!
📢 A thoughtful review by @adrianbua.bsky.social explores how the book tackles democracy’s paradoxes—from participation’s promises to perversions. @democratization.bsky.social

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Watch this. And then watch it again.

We participate to make them support it?! 😜

Pero qué buenos están los seminarios abiertos de la UAB.
Agradecida con la oportunidad de presentar mi Will of the people y comentar un trabajo de @adrianbua.bsky.social
@ricardgoma.bsky.social @margaleon.bsky.social @ahcdemocracy.bsky.social
Info: igop.uab.cat/es/2024/11/1...

Lo vamos a pasar bien en los seminars de 2025!

This calls for a beer

Get reading Soren Mau right now, and add Steven Kleins the work of politics to the list

Excited about a new book project, tentatively titled - "Critical Democratic Realism: a Transformative Political Economy of Democratic Innovation", contract just signed with Bristol University Press

Adam Tooze siempre es bien!

Why Are Poor Americans Voting for the Party of the Rich? Adam and Cameron explore this shift in the American electorate.

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Creo que mucho del exito de Trump etc pasa por instalar la "professional managerial class" como la élite parasitica, y generadora del wokeismo, con esta categoria social podemos entender como su coalicion aglutina trabajadores de baja renta con pequeños burgueses y partes del gran capital?

Thanks Yanina, I am finishing up your book at the moment. Will post about it when finished ✅️

Reclaiming participatory democracy. Social movements and the reinvention of democratic innovation Published in Democratization (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Research on #DemocraticInnovations has been mushrooming. While in Latam the focus is on how it articulates (de)democratizing trends, in Europe the mainstream focus is on particular formats (mostly) mini-publics. This 📘 goes beyond that rb.gy/vmkzio @sbussu.bsky.social @adrianbua.bsky.social #review