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This book brings together a number of highly innovative and thought provoking contributions from European researchers in territorial governance-related fields such as human geography, planning studies, sociology, and management studies. The contributions share the ambition of highlighting troubling contemporary tendencies where spatial planning and territorial governance can be seen to circumscribe or subvert 'due democratic practice' and the democratic ethos. The book also functions as an introduction to some of the central strands of contemporary political philosophy, discussing their rel.

1. The contested terrain of European territorial governance : new perspectives on democratic deficits and political displacements / Jonathan Metzger, Phil Allmendinger and Stijn Oosterlynck -- 2. Post-political regimes in English planning : from Third Way to Big Society / Phil Allmendinger and Graham Haughton -- 3. In search of the irreducible political moment : or why planning shouldn't be too hung up on conflictuality / Kristina Grange -- 4. Opposing the postpolitical Swedish urban discourse / Moa Tunstrom and Karin Bradley -- 5. Rethinking politics and the (post-)political through Deleuze-Guattarian micropolitics / Matthias Loepfe and Joris Van Wezemael -- 6. Impossible common ground : planning and reconciliation / John Pløger -- 7. Hopeless postpolitics, professional idiots, and the fate of public space in Stockholm Parklife / Jonas Bylund and Andrew Byerley -- 8. Conflict management, democratic demands, and the post-politics of privatisation / Mike Raco -- 9. Planning as war by other means / Mekonnen Tesfahuney and Richard Ek -- 10. The moose are protesting : the more-than-human politics of transport infrastructure development / Jonathan Metzger -- 11. Insurgent architects and the spectral return of the urban political / Erik Swyngedouw and Japhy Wilson.

"Democratic Deficit in the European Union" published on by Oxford University Press.

An interest in unravelling the issues that concern the development of Europeanisation is recurrent in the work of the Barcelona based political scientist. In the widest sense, this book is concerned with the so-called "Democratic Deficit" in the construction of Europe. And it does this dealing with what the European state parties say regarding integration in the Old World. The starting rationale in the conception of the book is perceptive. Is the European Union facing a situation in which the principal problem is the insufficient degree of democracy? ; Peer reviewed

Title Page -- Contents -- European territorial governance: Introduction to this volume -- Introduction -- Purpose of the book -- Structure of the book -- References -- Part I. Background -- European organisations and the institutionalisation of a territorial dimension in EU policy -- Introduction -- The EU: a construct built on treaties -- The search for relevant treaty articles -- The EU decision-making process -- Players and their attitudes towards territorial issues -- The European Commission -- The Council of Ministers and the informal ministerial meetings on spatial planning and development -- The European Parliament -- The Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee -- The substance and legitimacy of a spatial approach -- What is European spatial planning about? -- The legitimacy of European spatial planning -- Lobbying for spatial planning? -- Concluding remarks -- Further reading -- References -- Territorial governance and democracy. A European perspective -- Introduction -- No authority, plenty of influence -- How does the European Union work? -- The apolitical approaches -- Back to politics: a response to the apolitical approach -- The European Union and territorial governance -- Conclusion: three scenarios for European territorial governance -- Further reading -- References -- Territorial cohesion and the European open method of coordination -- Introduction -- Territorial cohesion: spatializing the European social model -- The dilemma of social Europe -- Conclusion: discussing social models -- Further reading -- References -- The long and winding road to EU territorial governance -- Introduction -- The 1950s: no European integration without `planification' -- Planning professionals advocating European spatial planning -- CRONWE: Planners forming a network of their own -- How CRONWE became redundant.

The recent student and staff protests in Amsterdam and at other Dutch universities have brought to light fundamental disagreements about the future of the Dutch university. Many students and staff members of Dutch universities have argued that the level of democratic decisionmaking about central policy issues in universities should be increased. But what can democracy mean in the context of the contemporary university system? In this contribution we will first briefly sketch the public role of the university. Then we will put forward our main claim, that the Dutch university currently suffers from a triple democratic deficit: in the relation between society and the university, in the relation between university administration and the academic community, and in the relation between the academic community and society. We can only make progress by considering these three problems of democratic legitimation in their mutual relations.

Political scientists have largely overlooked the democratic challenges inherent in the governance of U.S. public education—despite profound implications for educational delivery and, ultimately, social mobility and economic growth. In this study, we consider whether the interests of adult voters who elect local school boards are likely to be aligned with the needs of the students their districts educate. Specifically, we compare voters and students in four states on several policy-relevant dimensions. Using official voter turnout records and rich microtargeting data, we document considerable demographic differences between voters who participate in school board elections and the students attending the schools that boards oversee. These gaps are most pronounced in majority nonwhite jurisdictions and school districts with the largest racial achievement gaps. Our novel analysis provides important context for understanding the political pressures facing school boards and their likely role in perpetuating educational and, ultimately, societal inequality.

Longstanding concerns about the European Union's (EU) quest for democratic legitimacy are ever more acute. Many think such concerns can be best addressed if European institutions would become more effective crisis-managers. Stronger performance supposedly reinforces the EU's democratic credentials. This article rejects such 'output' oriented accounts as specious for assessment of the EU's democratic legitimacy. Drawing on Oakeshott's political theory, we argue that stronger performance addresses the desirability rather than democratic legitimacy of EU governance. We apply this insight as a heuristic device to consider the election of the Commission president and network governance.

Longstanding concerns about the European Union's (EU) quest for democratic legitimacy are ever more acute. Many think such concerns can be best addressed if European institutions would become more effective crisis-managers. Stronger performance supposedly reinforces the EU's democratic credentials. This article rejects such 'output' oriented accounts as specious for assessment of the EU's democratic legitimacy. Drawing on Oakeshott's political theory, we argue that stronger performance addresses the desirability rather than democratic legitimacy of EU governance. We apply this insight as a heuristic device to consider the election of the Commission president and network governance.

Longstanding concerns about the European Union's (EU) quest for democratic legitimacy are ever more acute. Many think such concerns can be best addressed if European institutions would become more effective crisis-managers. Stronger performance supposedly reinforces the EU's democratic credentials. This article rejects such 'output' oriented accounts as specious for assessment of the EU's democratic legitimacy. Drawing on Oakeshott's political theory, we argue that stronger performance addresses the desirability rather than democratic legitimacy of EU governance. We apply this insight as a heuristic device to consider the election of the Commission president and network governance.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface by the Editors -- List of Abbreviations -- PART I THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- 1 Governance and the Democratic Deficit: Introduction -- 2 The Governance Concept in Public Administration -- 3 Legitimacy and Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Assessing Governance Practices -- 4 The Idea of Democracy and the Eighteenth Century -- PART II GOVERNANCE AT A DISTANCE AND MARKET GOVERNANCE -- 5 Governance, Democracy and the European Modernization Agenda: A Comparison of Different Policy Initiatives -- 6 Police, Policing and Governance in The Netherlands and in the United Kingdom -- 7 The Accountability of Professionals in Social Policy: Or Why Governance is Multi-Focal and Democracy is Multi-Local -- PART III NETWORK GOVERNANCE AND SOCIETAL SELF-GOVERNANCE -- 8 The Legitimacy of the Rotterdam Integrated Public Safety Program -- 9 Embedding Deliberative Democracy: Local Environmental Forums in The Netherlands and the United States -- 10 The Limits of Donor-Induced Participation: An Analysis of a Participatory Development Program in Mozambique -- PART IV MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE -- 11 Democratic Legitimacy of Inter-Municipal and Regional Governance -- 12 Democratic Legitimacy of Economic Governance: The Case of the European and Monetary Union -- 13 The OMC and the Quest for Democratic Legitimization: The Case of the European Employment Strategy -- 14 Supranational Governance and the Challenge of Democracy: The IMF and the World Bank -- PART V CONCLUSIONS -- 15 Governance and the Democratic Deficit: An Evaluation