Abstract
Nowadays all kinds of processes of citizen involvement can be observed in practice. We label them as interactive governance in this article. Interactive governance brings with it new proto-institutions that can conflict with existing institutions of decision making. We analyze these institutional tensions in several Dutch local governments through comparative research. Our main conclusion is that there is a "missing institutional link" between the interactive process and the formal municipal decision-making process. Interactive governance needs better institutional embeddedness in order to prevent the interactive process from becoming meaningless and useless in formal decision making.
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Jurian Edelenbos
(2004).
Institutional Implications of Interactive Governance: Insights from Dutch Practice.
Governance
, 18
(1)
, 111-134.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0491.2004.00268.x
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- 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2004.00268.x