Addressing Democratic and Citizenship Deficits: Lessons from Civil Society?

摘要

Advanced democracies are facing considerable democratic and citizenship deficits (Macedo 2005; Nabatchi 2010). Public administration scholars have been investigating the potential of government agencies to correct these deficits through more and better-organized public forums under the twin guises of deliberative democracy and collaborative governance (Fung 2003; Nabatchi 2010; Sirianni 2009).