In recent years, a plethora of new possibilities for interactive urban planning emerged, fuelled by the rise of smart cities. This paper studies the potential of urban media for reshaping the role of citizens in urban planning. Both the historical role that citizens have played in the development of neighbourhoods and the process of urban planning ...
Communication mediated by technological devices promotes significant changes in democratic action and experience. Among the various changes incorporated into daily life are the new requirements of the informational dimension of public powers via digital network, which includes public communication. The objective of this study was to identify the th...
Published in Public Organization Review
The urgent need to improve the quality of healthcare provision in developing countries such as Nigeria and Ghana is caused in part by inadequate financial support for Primary Health Centres. This article investigates whether coproduction by involving citizens, and asking citizens for their involvement, could provide a solution. The findings show th...
Published in VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
Since the late 2000s, activists involved in conflicts over urban space and municipal budgets in a number of Czech cities have had an increasing tendency to enter the formal political realm in order to disrupt non-transparent ties between politicians and private business, and to narrow the gap between public administration and citizens. According to...
Cette thèse étudie la manière dont les institutions utilisent les procédures numériques dans leur application des processus participatifs, afin d'analyser comment cette utilisation peut résoudre certains des problèmes liés à la démocratie participative que nous nommerons « traditionnelle ». L'exemple du Budget Participatif de Paris, notamment, rend...
L'invasion de la technologie numérique a modifié la société civile et administrative depuis la fin du XXe siècle. Les libertés publiques et individuelles ont été affectées par cette technologie. Le droit commun s'est adapté pour défendre les libertés publiques. Une législation spéciale s'est mise en place pour protéger la vie privée au travers de l...
The Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) is a tool of economic analysis whose purpose is tomeasure, by the declared preferences of individuals, the utility they attach to the production ofpublic goods and thus allow a public decision-maker to arbitrate between expenses. Theapproach has been used in a centralist conceptual scheme, which leaves little r...
Published in Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
With the U.S. federal government stepping away from climate change, a number of cities have indicated that they will continue their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Broad statistical analysis and case studies of larger and often progressive cities have provided some insight into what drives local governments to act on climate change miti...
Le gouvernement du Québec a amorcé récemment une transformation importante de la gestion de l'État social. Dans un double mouvement, il centralise la gestion de certains secteurs d'activités à l'échelle provinciale alors que pour d'autres il décentralise les responsabilités à l'échelle des municipalités. Ceci a pour effet de déconstruire les instan...
Published in Quality & Quantity
This study empirically examined whether the use of social networking sites (SNSs) for political purposes would encourage personalized and informal modes of participation more strongly than traditional and institutional modes of participation. Multiple regression analysis was applied to data collected from a nationwide online survey conducted among ...
