Project description
Theories on the relationship between civil society and state
The role of municipalities has transformed over the years – from a paternalistic provider of services to a facilitator and partner with central government. Its new role promotes co-governance of resources and assets. The EU-funded MIDPO project will study whether this role involves a form of 'prefigurative state thinking' that requires new theories on the relationship between civil society and the state. Specifically, the project will develop an evidence-led typology of innovations in democratic public ownership. It will also determine whether innovations in public ownership contribute to a ‘feminisation’ and ‘democratisation’ of urban life. The findings will shed light on the changing relationship between civil society and the state.
Objective
The previous decade witnessed a wave of innovative approaches to democratic public ownership at the municipal scale. Rather than a paternalistic provider of services, such approaches diverse in both form and application variously recast the (local) state in a more facilitatory or partnership role, promoting participatory co-governance and/or co-ownership of resources and assets. This research aims to establish whether such innovations embody a new form of 'prefigurative state thinking' that is fundamentally reworking, and requires new theories of, the relationship between civil society and the state.
The objectives of the research include:
1. To develop an evidence-led typology of municipalist innovations in democratic public ownership
2. To determine (if and) how innovations in public ownership contribute to a feminisation and democratisation of urban life
3. To provide theoretical understandings of the changing relationship between civil society and the state
4. To identify and elaborate upon evidence-led design principles for feminised and democratised public ownership
5. To return and disseminate results to stakeholders and policy-makers, and pursue policy orientated impact
The project will utilise a qualitative comparative research approach across two phases. The first phase is a secondary analysis of the Transnational Institute's (TNI) 'International Database of De-privatised Public Services', with a focus on developing a) a propositional typology of democratic municipal innovations; and b) identifying exemplar cases for primary research. The second phase will include primary research of exemplar cases, including co-identified cases in the host city. The fellowship includes a 6-month secondment at TNI as an integral part of the research. The fellowship will deliver policy impact in-line with the European Commissions 2019-2024 priority areas and the UNs New Urban Agenda commitment to expanding meaningful participation in decision-making'.
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinator
08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
Spain