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In November 2004, the assassination of the filmmaker Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam by an Islamic extremist shocked The Netherlands. Critics of multiculturalism quickly linked the murder to the perceived failure of 'soft' integration policies and questioned the authority and legitimacy of Amsterdam's political leadership. This article studies the response of political leaders to those challenges from a performative perspective. Analysing governance as performance illuminates the importance of actively enacting political leadership in non-parliamentary settings such as talk shows, mosques and other religious meeting places, and improvised mass meetings in times of crisis. The authors distinguish different discursive means of performing authority, make suggestions for dealing with crisis events in ethnically and culturally diverse cities and draw some lessons from this approach as well as for methods of studying public administration. Adapted from the source document.

The assumption that more democratic procedures will help bring about a more sustainable organization of society is questioned, using the case of transport policy in Munich, Germany, thereby addressing how the key issue of mobility is handled institutionally in a risk society. The importance of new democratic, participatory practices is illuminated, as is the prominent role of new practices on a "corporatist" footing. The new democratic practices are shown to be less effective then their neocorporatist counterparts in influencing strategic decisions that bring about more sustainable mobility, as well as related processes of design of new technologies for sustainable mobility. It is suggested that models of democratic decision making in the risk society should come to terms with the fact that new interactive policy-making practices come in different types. It is the interrelationship between these practices that needs further investigation & conceptualization. 61 References. Adapted from the source document.