Researchers, policymakers and the representatives of international organisations increasingly use the term "social contract" to describe relations between societal groups and a state. The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, for example, has declared that "now is the time to renew the social...

The objective of this research synthesis is to collect and summarize the research literature on Ukrainian refugees in Switzerland. This is done through a systematic review, mostly in the form of a narrative review and with statistical indicators that are synthesized. A graphical summary...

This study investigated the interplay between community-based cultural initiatives conducted by Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) and social innovation. Selecting peer-reviewed open-access articles that focus on the intersection of culture and innovation was the first step in our...

While pre-release consumer buzz may drive new product market performance, little is known about the importance of its distinct behavioral manifestations: communication, search, and participation. This paper not only studies how these three pre-release buzz behaviors affect market performance but...

Im Beitrag wird die Untersuchung der Partizipationslandschaft in Münster als situatives und komplexes Gefüge von sozialen Welten und Arenen im Kontext transformativer Stadtentwicklungspolitik referiert. Diese bilden im Anschluss an die Methodologie der Situationsanalyse nach Adele Clarke den...

Participation has been a key part of pro-youth strategies in the past years. Participation is as well a key element of LEADER. This approach for a Community-Led Local Develop-ment (CLLD) is a well-established “territorial delivery mechanism” to foster rural development in the European Union....

Community dynamism has to grow at the local level, but there are also options to encourage such developments by means of funding programmes. One example for collective mobilisation are Local Actions Groups (LAGs) as a crucial element of LEADER, which is an EU funding scheme from for...

Public works programmes (PWPs) are widely used social protection instruments in low- and middle-income countries. Participants carry out temporary, labour-intensive works in exchange for cash or in-kind compensation. The available empirical evidence indicates that these programmes are usually...

We study whether exposure to social movements campaigning against income and gender income inequality shifts individual beliefs about inequality, reshapes preferences for redistribution, and translates into political participation in the UK. Since the Great Recession of the 2010s, the UK has...

Im Beitrag wird die Untersuchung der Partizipationslandschaft in Münster als situatives und komplexes Gefüge von sozialen Welten und Arenen im Kontext transformativer Stadtentwicklungspolitik referiert. Diese bilden im Anschluss an die Methodologie der Situationsanalyse nach Adele Clarke den...

Nepal is, according to its constitution, among the world's most decentralized countries, with a long and complex tradition of local-level public participation. This paper traces the evolution of Nepal's modern participatory institutions, examining the extent to which they are "induced" by...

This article examines the Participatory Fiscal Control System (SCFP) of the Colombian Comptroller General's Office as an institutional innovation in democratic oversight. While participatory audit mechanisms have expanded globally, the literature still lacks empirical analyses of how Supreme...

We study whether exposure to social movements campaigning against income and gender income inequality shifts individual beliefs about inequality, reshapes preferences for redistribution, and translates into political participation in the UK. Since the Great Recession of the 2010s, the UK has...

As an example of pedagogical approaches that blend online and face-to-face instruction, the flipped classroom model has seen exponential growth in business schools. To explore its effectiveness, expectancy-value theory and cognitive load theory were employed to develop a framework linking...

This paper investigates how concurrent national and local elections affect the local political participation and competition. Leveraging a quasi-experimental framework provided by Italy's staggered electoral timing, the paper employs a difference-in-differences design. Estimates reveal that...

To provide the tools, resources, research and methodologies to build capacity and good practice in participatory and deliberative democracy in the European Commission and other EU institutions, and across different levels of governance in the EU Member States. Mainstreaming participatory and...

Purpose - This paper explores how COVID-19 has impacted the shift from public participation by conventional means to e-participation. Specifically, we investigated to what extent COVID-19 has been a driver for electronic participation in community participatory budgeting, which is a kind of...

Researchers, policymakers and the representatives of international organisations increasingly use the term “social contract” to describe relations between societal groups and a state. The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, for example, has declared that “now is the time to renew the...

The Local Development Councils (LDCs) feature a significant participatory governance function in local policy development, as local government units (LGUs) are mandated to constitute LDCs with members from civil society organizations (CSOs). While the Department of the Interior and Local...

The aim of the article is to evaluate the position in global value chains (GVCs) of food processing industries in the Visegrad countries (V4; Poland, Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia) between 1995 and 2018. To identify the intensity and forms of integration in GVC of these industries in each country...

Die Repräsentativbefragung zur Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderungen (kurz: Teilhabesurvey) untersucht die Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderungen und Beeinträchtigungen in unterschiedlichen Lebensbereichen. Der Teilhabesurvey befragt sowohl Personen in Privathaushalten als auch...

Citizens' e-participation determines the successes and failures of digital government or e-government. However, its results to date have not been satisfactory. IT adoption models dominate previous studies. However, citizens' psychological factors have been overlooked. The field has fallen into...

Public works programmes (PWPs) are widely used social protection instruments in low- and middle-income countries. Participants carry out temporary, labour-intensive works in exchange for cash or in-kind compensation. The available empirical evidence indicates that these programmes are usually...

This paper investigates the role of gender bias in artificial intelligence-driven analyses of citizen participation, using data from the 2023 Latinobarómetro Survey. The paper proposes that gender bias-whether societal, data driven, or algorithmic-significantly affects civic engagement. Using...

We exploit education reforms in Sweden and other European countries to estimate the causal effects of longer and modernized compulsory education on civic engagement. In most countries, compulsory education was extended by 1-2 years, and the curricula were reformed to better foster democratic and...

We employ "doubly robust" event studies and matching methods to explore whether public participation in Constitution-making can curb political corruption moving forward. Measures of public participation are drawn from the Constitutionalism and Democracy Database (CDD) (Eisenstadt et al., 2015,...

How does criminal group taxation affect participation in elections? I argue that criminal groups that tax public service provision use it as a technology of governance, which gives them a comparative advantage in voter mobilization. I predict that higher levels of criminal taxes on services...