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The politics of heated facts: the controversy of conventional and unconventional gas in the Netherlands
Collaborative regional governance in the Netherlands:credible innovations or persistent routines
Mending democracies, patching societies
When our democracies are broken, we need to ‘fix’ our societies. There are no quick fixes, but the good news is that society is resilient and people will make new connections. We need to look better for those ‘small democratic wins’ and learn from them to improve our democratic systems. This seems to be the core message of the book ‘Mending Democracies’, that sits within a critical pragmatist approach and starts from the analysis of democratic deficits to offer new language and insights to understand societal resilience to repair institutional wrong-doings.
Discursive power in deliberations: A deliberative practice in planning for the creative economy.
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