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Deepening Democracy the Real Utopias Project
Deepening Democracy The Real Utopias Project Series editor: Erik Olin Wright The Real Utopias Project embraces a tension between dreams and practice. It is founded on the belief that what is pragmatically possible is not fixed independently of our imaginations, but is itself shaped by our visions. The fulfillment of such a belief involves ‘real utopias’: utopian ideals that are grounded in the real potentials for redesigning social institutions. In its attempt at sustaining and deepening serious discussion of radical alternatives to existing social practices, the Real Utopias Project examines various basic institutions – property rights and the market, secondary associations, the family, the welfare state, among others – and focusses on specific proposals for their fundamental redesign. The books in the series are the result of workshop conferences, at which groups of scholars are invited to respond to provocative manuscripts. Volume I ASSOCIATIONS AND DEMOCRACY Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers Volume II EQUAL SHARES: MAKING MARKET SOCIALISM WORK John E. Roemer Volume III RECASTING EGALITARIANISM: NEW RULES FOR COMMUNITIES, STATES AND MARKETS Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis Volume IV DEEPENING DEMOCRACY: INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATIONS IN EMPOWERED PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright Deepening Democracy Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance The Real Utopias Project IV ———————N——————— ARCHON FUNG and ERIK OLIN WRIGHT with contributions by Rebecca Neaera Abers, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Joshua Cohen, Patrick -
Varieties of Participation in Complex Governance Author(S): Archon Fung Reviewed Work(S): Source: Public Administration Review, Vol
Varieties of Participation in Complex Governance Author(s): Archon Fung Reviewed work(s): Source: Public Administration Review, Vol. 66, Special Issue: Collaborative Public Management (Dec., 2006), pp. 66-75 Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Society for Public Administration Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4096571 . Accessed: 09/02/2012 18:54 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Blackwell Publishing and American Society for Public Administration are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Public Administration Review. http://www.jstor.org Archon Fung HarvardUniversity Articleson Varietiesof Participationin Complex Governance Collaborative Public Management ArchonFung is anassociate professor 7Themultifaceted challengesof contemporarygovernance In this article, I develop a framework for understand- of atthe John F. publicpolicy Kennedy demand a complexaccount of the ways in which those ing a range of institutional possibilities. Such a frame- Schoolof Government,Harvard University. who are to laws and should work is a of the answer E-mail:[email protected]. subject policies participate necessary-if incomplete-part in making them. ?his article developsa frameworkfor to a larger question regarding the amounts and kinds understandingthe range of institutional possibilitiesfor of appropriate participation in governance. -
Deliberation and Development
DELIBERATION AND DEVELOPMENT DELIBERATION AND DEVELOPMENT Rethinking the Role of Voice and Collective Action in Unequal Societies Patrick Heller and Vijayendra Rao, Editors Washington, DC © 2015 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433 Telephone: 202-473-1000; Internet: www.worldbank.org Some rights reserved 1 2 3 4 18 17 16 15 This work is a product of the staff of The World Bank with external contributions. The fi ndings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this work do not necessarily refl ect the views of The World Bank, its Board of Executive Directors, or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. The boundaries, colors, denominations, and other information shown on any map in this work do not imply any judgment on the part of The World Bank concerning the legal status of any territory or the endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries. Nothing herein shall constitute or be considered to be a limitation upon or waiver of the privileges and immunities of The World Bank, all of which are specifi cally reserved. Rights and Permissions This work is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO license (CC BY 3.0 IGO) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo. Under the Creative Commons Attribution license, you are free to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt this work, including for commercial purposes, under the following conditions: Attribution—Please cite the work as follows Heller, Patrick and Vijayendra Rao, eds. -
Toward Empowered Deliberation in Chicago Schools and Policing
POLITICSARCHON FUNG& SOCIETY Accountable Autonomy: Toward Empowered Deliberation in Chicago Schools and Policing ARCHON FUNG 1. THE EMERGENCE OF ACCOUNTABLE AUTONOMY The city of Chicago hardly seems fertile ground for deliberative democratic institutions to take root and bear fruit. Although its history and environs have many contradictory strands—a tradition of machine politics, insular administra- tive bureaucracies installed in reaction to political manipulations, a vibrant tradi- tion of neighborhood activism, extreme socioeconomic inequality typical of urban areas in the United States—none is particularly friendly to a politics of fair- ness and reason.1 It is altogether surprising, then, that two recent institutional reforms have remade Chicago’s public school and police systems into the most formally partic- ipatory and deliberative departments of their kind in the United States. Consider the basic features of these organizations. The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) con- sists of some 540 elementary schools and high schools. Since 1988, each of these schools has been governed by its own elected “local school council” (LSC). LSCs are elected every two years and each consists of six parents, two community repre- sentatives, two teachers, the school’s principal, and an additional nonvoting stu- dent for high schools. They enjoy substantial powers and responsibilities such as A previous version of this article was presented at the Real Utopias V: Experiments in Empowered Deliberative Democracy conference (Madison, Wisconsin, 15-16 January 2000) and at the American Politics workshop at Harvard University. I would like to thank participants of those meetings and other commentators, especially Alan Altshuler, Joshua Cohen, David Hart, Charles Sabel, Lynn Sanders, Deborah Satz, Theda Skocpol, Craig Thomas, and Erik Olin Wright for their generous and invaluable feedback. -
Effective Public Management
Effective Public Management WORKING PAPER: DECEMBER 2016 The impact of open government: Assessing the evidence By: Vanessa Williamson and Norman Eisen EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Vanessa Wiliamson is a Fellow in in his report reviews the empirical and theoretical literature examining the international the Governance impact of open government, and offers recommendations for policymakers and an Studies program. She studies the politics T agenda for further research on the subject. of redistribution, with a focus on attitudes In Section I, we define the scope of our analysis, explaining what we mean by the question, about taxation. “does open government work?” Here, and throughout the report, we employ a broad definition of open government, focusing on three governance processes that allow the perspectives, Norman Eisen is a Visiting Fellow in the needs, and rights of citizens—including the most marginalized—to be addressed. They are Governance Studies program. He served (1) initiatives to increase transparency; (2) interventions intended to expand public engage- as President Obama’s ment and participation; and (3) efforts to improve responsiveness and accountability. By ethics czar from 2009 to 2011, and as the whether open government “works” or is “effective,” we mean interventions that the evidence U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic shows cause critical improvement in people’s lives (e.g. by improving health care, reducing from 2011 to 2014. corruption, increasing voting rates, and so on). From an analysis of hundreds of reports, articles, and peer-reviewed academic studies discussing the effectiveness of particular programs, we derive in Section II six features of open government programs that give these reforms the highest likelihood of success. -
Democratizing the Policy Process
Moran / The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy 33-Moran-chap33 Page Proof page 667 8.11.2005 12:16pm chapter 33 ................................................................................................................................................... DEMOCRATIZING THE POLICY PROCESS ................................................................................................................................................... archon fung The danger of modern liberty is that, absorbed in the enjoyment of our private independence, and in pursuit of our particular interests, we should surrender our right to share in political power too easily. The holders of authority are only too anxious to encourage us to do so. They are so ready to spare us all sort of troubles, except those of obeying and paying! They will say to us: what, in the end, is the aim of your eVorts, the motive of your labours, the object of all your hopes? Is it not happiness? Well, leave this happiness to us and we shall give it to you. No, Sirs, we must not leave it to them. (Benjamin Constant, 1816) What is the role of citizen participation and deliberation in modern governance and policy making? The tension between expertise and popular voice in contemporary polities remains unresolved by students of politics, policy, and administration. Direct democracy strikes many as both undesirable and unfeasible. It is not desirable because the public virtues of political engagement have no special place in modern values and conceptions of the good life.1 Even if it were desirable, it is not feasible This chapter emerged from discussions held in a workshop on novel forms of representation organized by Nancy Rosenblum at the RadcliVe Institute for Advanced Study, 21 May 2004. I thank Joshua Cohen, Jane Mansbridge, Martha Minow, Nancy Rosenblum, Richard Tuck, Sidney Verba, and the other participants for their insights during and after that discussion. -
Deepening Democracy
Deepening Democracy Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance Volume IV in the Real Utopias Project Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright (editors) Manuscript – April 18, 2001 Contents Introduction Chapter 1. Thinking About Empowered Participatory Governance Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright Case Studies Chapter 2. Participation, Activism, and Politics: The Porto Alegre Experiment and Deliberative Democratic Theory Gianpaolo Baiocchi Chapter 3. Decentralisation, Democracy and Development: People’s Campaign for Decentralised Planning in Kerela T. M. Thomas Issac and Patrick Heller Chapter 4. Deliberative Democracy, Chicago Style: Grassroots Participation and Municipal Reform in Policing and Public Education Archon Fung Chapter 5. Habitat Conservation Plans: Certainly empowered, Somewhat Deliberative, Questionably Democratic Craig W. Thomas Commentaries (in preparation) Introduction Thinking About Empowered Participatory Governance1 ARCHON FUNG AND ERIK OLIN WRIGHT As the tasks of the state have become more complex and the size of polities larger and more heterogeneous, the institutional forms of liberal democracy developed in the nineteenth century — representative democracy plus techno-bureaucratic administration — seem increasingly ill-suited to the novel problems we face in the twenty-first century. “Democracy” as a way of organizing the state has come to be narrowly identified with territorially-based competitive elections of political leadership for legislative and executive offices. Yet, increasingly, this mechanism of political representation seems ineffective in accomplishing the central ideals of democratic politics: facilitating active political involvement of the citizenry, forging political consensus through dialogue, devising and implementing public policies that ground a productive economy and healthy society, and, in more radical egalitarian versions of the democratic ideal, assuring that all citizens benefit from the nation’s wealth. -
Creating Deliberative Publics: Governance After Devolution and Democratic Centralism
Archon Fung Assistant Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Email: [email protected]; tel: 617.495.9846 Draft 1.0: 2 December 1999 Leonardo Avritzer, Special Issue of Metropolitica DRAFT ONLY: Please do not cite without permission! Creating Deliberative Publics: Governance After Devolution and Democratic Centralism1 1. The Persistent Problem of the Public In the Public and Its Problems, John Dewey lamented the stagnancy of democratic political forms in the face of rapidly changing economy and society.2 Citizens in pre-industrial America may have been able to keep abreast of public affairs and express their will through the machinery of parties and elections, but these institutions had proved woefully inadequate to the challenges of modern governance with its large scale, diversity, and technical complexity. The problem of the modern public—and the cause of its incoherence—was that citizens, alone and together, were for the most part 1 This ideas offered here draw heavily upon an ongoing, and expanding, series of collaborations to explore participatory democratic renewal. Some previous and related products of that collaboration are Charles Sabel, Archon Fung, and Bradley Karkkainen, “Beyond Backyard Environmentalism,” Boston Review, Vol. 24, No. 5 (October/November 1999): 4-11; Charles Sabel, Dara O’Rourke, and Archon Fung, “Open Labor Standards” (Prepared for the Annual Meetings of the World Bank 1999, on file with author); Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright, “Experiments in Empowered Deliberative Democracy: Introduction,” (June 1999, manuscript on file with author). Fung/Empowered Deliberation/DRAFT ONLY!! Page 2 bewildered when they contemplate affairs of state and their relationship to it.