Implementation of democratic innovations in Prague (Czech Republic): an empirical exploration

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F22%3A73609779" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/22:73609779 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14230/22:00125076

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264275121004261?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264275121004261?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103527" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.cities.2021.103527</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Implementation of democratic innovations in Prague (Czech Republic): an empirical exploration

Original language description

The overarching aim of this article is to explore the implementation of democratic innovations in Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic. As a first attempt to provide a systematic, detailed and contextualized analysis of this under-researched topic, the study reveals new, important insights into the issue of democratic innovation implementation at the municipal level. Moreover, the choice of Prague as a case study – located as it is in a post-communist Central and Eastern European country – adds to the scholarly literature on the use of democratic innovations and participatory tools in European cities in general. The research uniquely draws on 156 questionnaire surveys and interviews with experts and local politicians conducted in Prague in 2019. Theoretically, it works with the comprehensive typological framework as designed by Elstub and Escobar. A wide range of real-world examples illustrate how democratic innovations have been implemented in Prague and how new participatory opportunities have been enabled. The article finds that while only certain types of democratic innovations have been used by the central administration (e.g. mini-publics, collaborative governance and digital participation), all of them have been applied at the level of individual boroughs. We also conclude that the implementation of democratic innovations in the Czech capital has been influenced primarily by the political ideologies of the leading parties

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50602 - Public administration

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-20569S" target="_blank" >GA17-20569S: Democratic Innovations at the local level - Case study of the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

CITIES

ISSN

0264-2751

e-ISSN

1873-6084

Volume of the periodical

2022

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

1-11

UT code for WoS article

000753649900005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85120424911