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Citizen Participation @oliverescobar.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

🤔 What's the point of democratic innovation? Can it address crurrent crises and build democracies for the future? 💡In this new article @adrianbua.bsky.social and I argue that the field needs to strengthen its change-making orientation and capacity. Open access 👉🏼 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Democratic innovation for change: A participatory corrective to deliberative hegemony - Oliver Escobar, Adrian Bua, 2025

The world faces social, political, economic, and ecological crises, and there is doubt that democratic governance can cope. Democracies rely on a narrow set of ...

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Adrian Bua @adrianbua.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Just published an article w. @oliverescobar.bsky.social: "Democratic Innovation for Change: A Participatory Corrective to Deliberative Hegemony" Read the article open access here (summary thread below) lnkd.in/ez9hRMWy

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Dimitri Courant @dimitricourant.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

PDD Panel 1 - Paper 4 "The Field of Participation: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Participatory Democracy" @adrianbua.bsky.social (@uab.cat ), Sadiya Akram, @sbussu.bsky.social (@unibirmingham.bsky.social), Patricia Garcia Espin (U Granada) #PSA2025 @psapdd.bsky.social @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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Adrian Bua @adrianbua.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

My review of @welpita.bsky.social "the Will of the People" where she analyses the relationship between democracy, participation and populism - bringing a sober look and much needed dose of realism to participation and democratization

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Yanina Welp @welpita.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

🚀 Thrilled to see The Will of the People sparking debate! 📢 A thoughtful review by @adrianbua.bsky.social explores how the book tackles democracy’s paradoxes—from participation’s promises to perversions. @democratization.bsky.social 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The will of the people: populism and citizen participation in Latin America

Published in Democratization (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Watch this. And then watch it again.

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Yanina Welp @welpita.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Pero qué buenos están los seminarios abiertos de la UAB. Agradecida con la oportunidad de presentar mi Will of the people y comentar un trabajo de @adrianbua.bsky.social @ricardgoma.bsky.social @margaleon.bsky.social @ahcdemocracy.bsky.social Info: igop.uab.cat/es/2024/11/1...

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Adrian Bua @adrianbua.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Excited about a new book project, tentatively titled - "Critical Democratic Realism: a Transformative Political Economy of Democratic Innovation", contract just signed with Bristol University Press

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Yanina Welp @welpita.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Research on #DemocraticInnovations has been mushrooming. While in Latam the focus is on how it articulates (de)democratizing trends, in Europe the mainstream focus is on particular formats (mostly) mini-publics. This 📘 goes beyond that rb.gy/vmkzio @sbussu.bsky.social @adrianbua.bsky.social #review

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Reclaiming participatory democracy. Social movements and the reinvention of democratic innovation

Published in Democratization (Ahead of Print, 2024)

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