Schools of Democracy: How Ordinary Citizens (Sometimes) Become Competent in Participatory Budgeting Institutions [Paperback]

Schools of Democracy offers a vivid analysis of the long-term impact of engagement in participatory budgeting institutions in Europe.Schools of Democracy offers a vivid analysis of the long-term impact of engagement in participatory budgeting institutions in Europe.contentsList of Figures and Tables viList of Abbreviations viiAcknowledgements ixIntroduction xiChapter One: Entering the Black Box of Civic Competence: A PragmatistPerspective on Self-change 1Chapter Two: Power to the People? Three Participatory Budget Experiencesin Europe 31Chapter Three: The Meanings of Public Engagement: How the Emergence of theParticipatory Grammar Reframes the Role of Good Citizen 67Chapter Four: Participatory Democracy and its Public 99Chapter Five: Much Ado About Nothing? Why and how Public DeliberationHardly Change People 133Chapter Six: Becoming a Good Citizen by Participating 159Conclusion 191Appendix: Towards a Comparative Ethnographic Method 197Bibliography 201Index 221Julien Talpin is a research fellow at the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS), professor of politics at the University of Lille 2. His research deals with the study of deliberative democracy from below, aiming at understanding how participatory experiences are lived by actors and shape their political and personal careers. He is currently investigating the conditions of inclusion of poor people and minorities in participatory processes in Europe and the US. He is co-editor of the French-speaking journal?Participations. He has recently published?Schools of Democracy: How Ordinary Citizens (Sometimes) Become Competent in Participatory Budgeting Institutions, Colchester, ECPR Press, 2011; What can ethnography bring to the study of deliberative democracy? Evidence from the study on the impact of participation on actors,?Revista International de Sociologia, 70 (2), 2012; When deliberation happens. Evaluating discursive interactions among ordinary citizens, in B. Gei?el, M. Joas, (eds.)?ParticipatorlS%