Objectives
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Better understand challenges to democratic cultures and factors influencing local responses to these challenges
2
Investigate the ways in which innovative and experimental governance practices emerge as well as the main actors, actor groups and strategies involved
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Assess the potentials of different participatory mechanisms as models for renewing and improving the European public sphere
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Assess and facilitate through design thinking and collaborative methods learning processes involved in developing experimental governance
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Understand how local-level democratic innovation addresses power asymmetries and needs of more vulnerable groups
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Assess the contributions of locally-based procedural and distributive justice to strengthening participatory and inclusive governance
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Contribute to new conceptual and comparative frameworks of participative-deliberative democracy
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Methodological advances, elaboration of methods and tools for transferring governance innovation practices
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Elaborate policy options for strengthening inclusive governance and for bridging discrepancies and trade-offs between participative and deliberative governance modes