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The article evaluates the impact of citizen participation on democratic governance values such as effectiveness, legitimacy, and social justice.

Putting the Public Back into Governance: The Challenges of Citizen Participation and Its Future

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This article examines challenges faced by citizen engagement in governance, highlighting implications for democracy.

The article evaluates the impact of citizen participation on democratic governance values such as effectiveness, legitimacy, and social justice.
Review of large- and small-scale experiments in participatory governance
Analysis of claims regarding values of governance
Discussion of challenges to participatory governance
Citizen participation holds potential for effective governance but faces limitations in enhancing legitimacy.
Obstacles to achieving social justice through participation are significant.
Three challenges identified include lack of leadership, consensus on participation, and limited powers of participatory innovations.

Archon Fung (2015) studied this question.

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