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This open access book examines how digital technologies are used to promote citizen participation in democratic urban development. It assesses the emergence, use, applicability and functions of digital modes of citizen participation in multiple cities around the world, where political regimes invite ordinary citizens to partake in policy processes through information technologies. The book also explores these initiatives alongside issues of democracy, social justice and power. It is an essential reference for practitioners, policymakers and academics interested in the relationship between citizen participation, technology and urban governance.

Public administration --- Sociology --- Political structure & processes --- Urban Development --- e-participation --- Gentrification --- Innovation --- Local Democracy --- Digitalization

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Les discours sur la « démocratie de proximité » ou la « démocratie participative » ont le vent en poupe. Dans un contexte de remise en question du rôle de l'État, la participation des habitants constituerait un facteur favorisant à la fois une nouvelle légitimité politique et une modernisation de la gestion publique locale. C'est ainsi que se développent depuis plusieurs années des dispositifs qui entendent améliorer la gestion de proximité en s'appuyant sur la participation citoyenne. Ces expériences appellent des réflexions plus théoriques sur la démocratie et les politiques publiques. Dans quelle mesure une activité citoyenne peut-elle se conjuguer avec une réforme de la gestion urbaine ? Quelles sont les conditions d'une véritable démocratie participative ? Comment l'institutionnalisation de la participation s'articule-t-elle aux tendances plus globales d'évolution des sociétés contemporaines ? Cet ouvrage collectif s'efforce de répondre à ces questions en donnant une vision d'ensemble des dispositifs adoptés et des politiques menées, dans une perspective comparative internationale. Des conseils de quartier français aux jurys citoyens en Allemagne et en Espagne, de l'usage du référendum en Suisse aux empowerment zones en Amérique du Nord, en passant par les budgets participatifs d'Amérique latine et les politiques participatives de gestion de l'eau en Afrique australe, les différentes contributions analysent les modalités des transformations de l'action publique locale et, par là, des institutions et pratiques de la démocratie.

Local government --- Comparative government. --- Democracy. --- Political participation. --- Citizen participation. --- Socio-Politics - Local Democracy.

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Local communities have an important role in society. According to states legislature they execute local public policies. Those processes include local democracy, public administration, local economy and social entities. Also they combine public and private resources. All of these groups of factors have their own capacity. Capacity is their ability to achieve goals and consists from inside and outside factors. Capacity of local self-government is integrated capacity. It represents holistic capacity for those units. It tells us, whether they are capable of doing things they should do, according to social and political system and its demands. Local units have different level of capacity. With conceptual model and field research we tested our research hypothesis. Our hypothesis is that local self-government communities with higher capacity offer their residents broader local public services and goods. Also we studies influence of political stability and autonomy on capacity. On representative sample of municipalities in Republic of Slovenia we confirmed all ours research hypothesis. Conceptual model of capacity is a tool for analysing individual communities and for analysing the whole system of local-self government. Also many suggestions for improvement can be made.

Local government --- Local government --- Local government. --- Municipal services. --- Politics and government. --- public administration --- local self-government --- local democracy --- local economy --- social entity --- Management. --- Slovenia. --- public administration --- local self-government --- local democracy --- local economy --- social entity

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Local communities have an important role in society. According to states legislature they execute local public policies. Those processes include local democracy, public administration, local economy and social entities. Also they combine public and private resources. All of these groups of factors have their own capacity. Capacity is their ability to achieve goals and consists from inside and outside factors. Capacity of local self-government is integrated capacity. It represents holistic capacity for those units. It tells us, whether they are capable of doing things they should do, according to social and political system and its demands. Local units have different level of capacity. With conceptual model and field research we tested our research hypothesis. Our hypothesis is that local self-government communities with higher capacity offer their residents broader local public services and goods. Also we studies influence of political stability and autonomy on capacity. On representative sample of municipalities in Republic of Slovenia we confirmed all ours research hypothesis. Conceptual model of capacity is a tool for analysing individual communities and for analysing the whole system of local-self government. Also many suggestions for improvement can be made.

Local government --- Local government. --- Municipal services. --- Politics and government. --- Management. --- Slovenia. --- public administration --- local self-government --- local democracy --- local economy --- social entity

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The book is devoted to relations between the ethnic diversity and the quality of governance at the local level. Opolskie province in Poland is a case for explaining this interdependence. That is because of its history of multiculturalism and the present state of its ethnic diversity. The important feature of this region is, that nearly half of the communes is ethnically homogenous when the rest is ethnically diversified with a strong position of German and Silesian minorities. The preliminary assumption was, that the quality of governance would be higher in communes characterized by ethnic diversity. On the basis of the nested analysis method, authors conducted quantitative and qualitative analysis.

Cultural pluralism. --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- case --- civil society --- Czepil --- diversity --- Ethnic --- German minority --- governance --- local --- local democracy --- Opiola --- Opole --- Poland --- Province --- quality --- Regional --- self-government --- Silesia --- Opole (Poland : Powiat) --- Government policy. --- Powiat Opolski (Województwo Opolskie, Poland) --- Opole County (Województwo Opolskie, Poland)