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One. Introduction: communicating in participatory practicePublic encounters in participatory democracy -- Plan of the book -- Two. Public encounters in participatory democracy: towards communicative capacity -- Participatory democracy: from democratic political theory to practice -- Public encounters: the in-between of public professionals and citizens -- Communicative capacity: theory and practice -- Summary -- Three. Studying narratives of participatory practice -- How public encounters in practice can illuminate theory -- Narrative analysis: examining what happens in-between -- Grounded theory: dialogical analysis of practice -- Final remarks -- Four. Communicative patterns: what happens when public professionals and citizens meet -- Glasgow: making it work -- Amsterdam: being in touch -- Bologna: canalising -- Summary and implications: communicative patterns and capacity -- Five. Work in progress: engaging with the situation -- Glasgow: starting from scratch -- Amsterdam: getting to grips -- Bologna: breaking new ground -- Summary and implications: communicative capacity and work in progress -- Six. Struggling: discussing the substantive issues at hand -- Glasgow: taking a stance -- Amsterdam: under the skin -- Bologna: nuts and bolts -- Summary and implications: communicative capacity and struggling -- Seven. Making connections: building and maintaining relationships -- Glasgow: converting each other -- Amsterdam: approaching each other -- Bologna: keeping distance -- Summary and implications: communicative capacity and making connections -- Eight. Conclusion: communicative capacity In participatory theory and practice -- Public encounters in participatory theory and practice -- Theory and practice of communicative capacity -- Implications for participatory theory -- Nine. Recommendations: communicative capacity in practice and policy -- Communicative capacity in practice -- Policy for communicative capacity -- Learning and change.

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Questions have arisen about the added value of public encounters for participatory democracy: Do problems with living up to its promises occur because of or despite public professionals and citizens coming together? This article presents the findings of a study that examined their public encounters, or communicative "in-between," in participatory projects in three European cities. A narrative analysis revealed how the communicative capacity of public professionals and citizens is imperative and yet largely overlooked, that is, their ability to recognize and break through dominant communicative patterns by constantly adapting the nature, tone, and conditions of conversations to the situation at hand. Less time, energy, and resources will be lost if they pay more attention to how they communicate (process) rather than what they talk about (substance). As this proves to be inherently difficult in everyday practice, researchers could play an important role in cultivating communicative capacity.

Introduction : action research in policy analysis and transition research / Koen P.R. Bartels and Julia M. Wittmayer -- Both critical and applied? : action research and transformative change in the UK water sector / Emma Westling and Liz Sharp -- Co-inquirer reflection / Chris Digman -- Cooperative research for bottom-up food sovereignty and policy change / Bálint Balázs and György Pataki -- Co-inquirer reflection / Csilla Kiss and Borbála Sarbu-Simonyi -- Transition scientivism : on activist gardening and co-producing transition knowledge from below / Shivant Jhagroe -- Co-inquirer reflection / Rutger Henneman -- Cultivating sanction and sanctuary in Scottish collaborative governance : doing relational work to support communicative spaces / James Henderson and Claire Bynner -- Co-inquirer reflection / Alison McPherson -- Negotiating space for mild interventions : action research on the brink between social movements and government policy in Flanders / Erik Paredis and Thomas Block -- Co-inquirer reflection / Dirk Barrez -- Soft resistance : balancing relationality and criticality to institutionalise action research for territorial development / Ainhoa Arrona and Miren Larrea -- Co-inquirer reflection / Ander Arzelus -- Lipstick on a pig? : appreciative inquiry in a context of austerity / Alison Gardner -- Co-inquirer reflection / Liz Jones -- Getting unstuck : the reconstruction clinic as pragmatic intervention in controversial policy disputes / Martien Kuitenbrouwer -- Co-inquirer reflection / Karima Arichi -- Exploring the use of audiovisual media for deliberation : reframing discourses on vulnerabilities to climate change in Nepal / Floriane Clement -- Co-inquirer reflection / Damakant Jayshi -- Really imagined : policy novels as a mode of action research / Sonja van der Arend -- Co-inquirer reflection / Martine de Vaan -- Conclusion : critical and relational action research for policy change and sustainability transitions / Koen P.R. Bartels and Julia M. Wittmayer.

"Todays pressing political, social, economic, and environmental crises urgently ask for effective policy responses and fundamental transitions towards sustainability supported by a sound knowledge base and developed in collaboration between all stakeholders. This book explores how action research forms a valuable methodology for producing such collaborative knowledge and action. It outlines the recent uptake of action research in policy analysis and transition research and develops a distinct and novel approach that is both critical and relational. By sharing action research experiences in a variety of settings, the book seeks to explicate ambitions, challenges, and practices involved with fostering policy changes and sustainability transitions. As such it provides crucial guidance and encouragement for future action research in policy analysis and transition research. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of policy analysis and transition research and more broadly to public administration and policy, urban and regional studies, political science, research and innovation, sustainability science, and science and technology studies. It will also speak to practitioners, policymakers and philanthropic funders aiming to engage in or fund action research."--Provided by publisher.

The debate on volunteering has paid insufficient attention to the relationship between public spending and volunteering. The importance of this relationship is highlighted by the British government's "Big Society" plan, which asserts that an increase in volunteering will compensate for the withdrawal of public agencies and spending. This idea is based on the widely held belief that a high degree of government intervention decreases voluntary activities. This article uses a multidisciplinary approach to improve understanding of how public spending affects the decision to volunteer. A theoretical model conceptualizes this relationship in terms of time donation by employed individuals. The model is tested empirically through an econometric analysis of two survey data sets and interpretative analysis of narratives of local volunteers and public professionals. The results suggest that volunteering is likely to decline when government intervention decreases and that a collaborative approach to sustaining volunteering is needed.