Deliberative democracy has challenged two widely-accepted nostrums about democratic
politics: that people lack the capacities for effective self-government; and that democratic …

We offer a fresh perspective on implementation problems by suggesting that collaborative
policy design and adaptive policy implementation will help public policy makers to improve …

In response to the urgent need for elected politicians to lead processes of collaborative
policy innovation, this paper brings together political leadership theory and theories of …

The recent shift towards a deliberative systems approach suggests understanding public
deliberation as a communicative activity occurring in a diversity of spaces. While …

Initially, governance networks were intended as tools for making public governance more
effective. Yet, scholars have argued that governance networks also have the potential to …

In recent years, multiculturalism has been declared a failure both in Europe and the
Anglophone West. This diagnosis went hand in hand with an excessive focus on gendered …

With the systemic turn in deliberative democratic theory, there is renewed and broadened
emphasis on the inclusion of all affected by a political decision in the making of those …

This paper argues that elected politicians may strengthen their political leadership role by
initiating, orchestrating and engaging in the co-creation of public value outcomes. The …

This paper addresses an important conceptual question surrounding the categorisation of
honour-based violence (hereafter 'HBV')–Is HBV a subspecies of domestic violence …

Efforts made by cities to enhance their vitality are often hampered by local councilors failing
to set the political agenda, define pressing problems, and design and implement solutions …