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AbstractThe intent of this article is to reflect on the notion of empowered participatory governance in order to gain a better understanding of the institutional contexts and parameters that encourage a more participative democracy, and thereby bring to light the political mechanisms that contribute to broadening the decision‐making process. The example we consider is the Montreal Participative Budget (PB). We focus on the impact of decentralization, more specifically on the form this took as the Montreal PB was being elaborated. We examine how much decentralization circumscribes the PB process. The Montreal Participative Budget provides an illustration of the emergence of a participative level in a political context that is, on the whole, hostile to participatory decision making. We suggest that the PB in this context benefits from a new window of opportunity. The chosen example has a dual significance: it underlines the role of temporal contingencies and scales of the process of decentralization in the participative structures at the local level, and it enables us to gain a better grasp of the problem of institutional architectures in implementing participatory democracy by emphasizing the political and social realities underlying new loci for decision making.RésuméCette réflexion entend participer à l'agenda de recherche autour de la Empowered Participatory Governance lancé par Fung et Wright. Après avoir dressé un bilan d'analyses consacrées à différentes expériences participatives, afin de préciser les configurations institutionnelles et politiques favorables à une gouvernance plus participative, nous examinons ces résultats à l'aune du Budget Participatif du Plateau Mont‐Royal à Montréal. Notre étude s'attarde plus particulièrement sur les liens entre décentralisation et démocratie participative, soulignant la nécessité d'une analyse qui prenne en compte les rapports de force entre les acteurs au sein des systèmes de gouvernance antérieurs à l'instauration des instances participatives. Si la présence de mouvements sociaux et de partis politiques, soutenant le projet participatif, s'avère incontournable, un mouvement uniquement bottom up risque également de cantonner la portée transformatrice de la démocratie participative à sa portion congrue.

The objective of the research is to analyze the functioning of the fruit and vegetables cooperatives at regional level (Emilia Romagna), with particular reference to the mutuality purpose that distinguishes them, the institutional structure and the management. On the one hand the research intends to provide a definition and an explanation of the real operation/functioning of the mechanism of the mutualism and governance and on the other hand, to study the internal managerial mechanisms and the levels of functioning of the fruit and vegetable cooperatives with the purpose to provide significant indications on their real economic performance. Following a brief analysis of the market context in which the agricultural cooperatives operate, the works will proceed with a deep analysis of a sample of cooperatives regarding the structure and the forms of organization of the members and those aspects can be connected to the following dynamics: - valorisation of the social contribution (effective levels of internal mutuality); - economic efficiency (and consequent economic-financial trends); - levels of internal efficiency and productivity. The applied methodology is based in a first phase on the reclassification, elaboration and analysis of the balance of the sample enterprises. In this phase the research will give a first insight into the economic-financial and capital investment situation of the fruit and vegetable cooperatives trying to concentrate on the implemented and on the possible financing mechanisms and on the levels of efficiency and effectiveness of the productivity achieved. Subsequently the works will proceed with the realization of a direct survey in form of questionnaires to submit to the responsible persons of the sample cooperatives, in order to highlight/emphasize the critical points in respect to the three main arguments of research: mutuality, governance, management.

Exhibited from November 12, 2009, through January 17, 2010, three art shows under the common title Istanbul Next Wave introduced a newly narrated Turkish history of modern art to German audiences. This Turkish intervention, which led to unprecedented curatorial co-operations by established German and Turkish institutions of contemporary art, is juxtaposed with other Istanbul exhibits from the middle of the first decade of the 21st century, such as Urbane Realitäten – Focus Istanbul, berlin . istanbul . vice . versa, and Call me ISTANBUL ist mein Name, in order to examine the controversies, negotiations, and collaborations that defined recent presentations of Turkish artists' work in Germany. In a diachronic approach focusing on questions of interventions, this article thus inquires into this particular strand of the history of exhibiting contemporary art in Germany, going back to the early displays of works by Turkish artists in the 1970s and 1980s. Layer by layer, it examines the intricate relations between the presentation of Turkish art and the representation of Turks in Germany, which have done more than merely reflecting, shaping, and molding audiences' receptions, reviews in the media, and public debates at large. The paper aims at evaluating Turkish art interventions in Germany in relation to processes of Europeanization.

Zusammenfassung
Der Deutsche Corporate Governance Kodex stellt eine Form der Co-Regulierung von Standards guter Unternehmensführung dar. Bisherige Studien haben gezeigt, dass der Kodex insgesamt eine sehr positive Resonanz erfährt. Allerdings enthält er auch einige Bestimmungen, die nicht von der überwiegenden Mehrheit der Unternehmen angewendet und daher als neuralgisch bezeichnet werden. In Längsschnittbetrachtungen lässt sich ermitteln, dass die Akzeptanz der Kodexstandards drei unterschiedlichen Verlaufsmustern folgt, da sie entweder von Beginn an große Zustimmung erhalten, im Zeitablauf ansteigende Akzeptanz erlangen oder vergleichsweise konstant eher nur geringe Akzeptanzwerte erreichen. In dem vorliegenden Beitrag werden die Verlaufsformen genauer erläutert und vor diesem Hintergrund die Normierungseffekte des Kodex eingehender diskutiert. Die Analyse ergibt, dass die Kodexstandards unterschiedlichen Normierungsansätzen entsprechen und der Erfolg der Kodexeinführung generell letztlich davon abhängt, dass die vom Kodex notwendigerweise belassenen Ermessensspielräume in der Unternehmenspraxis verantwortungsvoll ausgefüllt werden.

This article offers an empirical counter-example to the tenets of the increasingly popular conceptualisation of British Politics and policy as having shifted from 'big' Government to governance by networks and partnerships. We point to the paradox in many policy sectors: an outward appearance of 'new' multi-agency governance that would appear to confirm the 'governance narrative'. However, the underlying hierarchical power structures at work in sectors such as sport policy (discussed here) and education suggest such cases are deviant and do not fit the 'governance narrative' ideal-type. Further, we put forward the notion of 'asymmetrical network governance' to highlight the modified forms of governance which still rest on asymmetrical power relations and largely unchanged patterns of resource dependency operating in the sports policy sector at both elite and mass participation levels. We argue for a more differentiated analysis of policy sectors, as the implications of applying broad-brush understandings of structural change to all areas of policy can be misleading and can fail to take into account the continuing high degree of central control over policy design and outcomes.