Our aim is to reorient democratic innovation towards capacity-building, which requires power-sharing, economic democracy, and systemic ambition.
Read the article here:

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Pluriversality embracing ontological & epistemological diversity
Policy engaging more deeply with public administration and state theory
Political economy confronting structural inequalities and capitalist constraints
Empowerment building the material and collective capacities for democratic action

We argue that the field of democratic innovation has tilted too far toward a legitimacy-oriented, deliberative hegemony, and needs a participatory corrective to develop capacity for change making.
We identify four areas as exemplars:

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We ask what kind of democratic innovation can support change? Oliver had been working on the idea of a legitimacy<>capacity dyad in democratic theory, and I am immensely grateful he thought of me to help develop it!

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PDD Panel 1 - Paper 4

"The Field of Participation: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Participatory Democracy"

@adrianbua.bsky.social (@uab.cat ), Sadiya Akram, @sbussu.bsky.social (@unibirmingham.bsky.social), Patricia Garcia Espin (U Granada)

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We participate to make them support it?! 😜

Lo vamos a pasar bien en los seminars de 2025!

This calls for a beer

Get reading Soren Mau right now, and add Steven Kleins the work of politics to the list

Adam Tooze siempre es bien!

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Creo que mucho del exito de Trump etc pasa por instalar la "professional managerial class" como la élite parasitica, y generadora del wokeismo, con esta categoria social podemos entender como su coalicion aglutina trabajadores de baja renta con pequeños burgueses y partes del gran capital?

Thanks Yanina, I am finishing up your book at the moment. Will post about it when finished ✅️