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ECPR Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization

Teaching participation

Syllabuses for Courses on Participation

• Consumerism, Society and Public Policy

• Comportamiento politico y electoral

• Political Participation in Comparative Perspective
(for more information, see Dietlind Stolle's homepage)

• Contemporary Political and Social Action
(for more information contact Therese O’Toole)

• Local Politics and Forms of Participation (in Italian)

Other Rescources

• Research network: Changing Patterns of Participation and Representation in Europe

New wiki-website on participation: Participedia

Participedia consists of user-generated articles about participatory governance throughout the world.

Participedia is a tool for strengthening democracy. Based on a wiki platform, its main content consists of user-generated articles which describe and assess participatory governance throughout the world. For instance, there will be articles on the British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly of 2004, consensus conferences in Denmark, participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre and other cities, local school council governance in Chicago, municipal evaluation meetings in China, and the People’s Campaign for Democratic Decentralization (under the Panchayati Raj reforms) in Kerala, India. In addition, there will be articles on participatory methods, such as deliberative polling, citizens' assemblies, and participatory budgeting, as well as articles about the organizations that sponsor, implement, and study participatory governance. Over time, we hope Participedia will garner hundreds and perhaps thousands of such articles.

There are three main kinds of articles in Participedia:

• Articles about cases, or experiences, of participatory or deliberative governance (e.g. British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly of 2004).

• Articles about specific methods of public deliberation, participation, or collaborative governance (e.g. Participatory Budgeting).

• Articles about organizations that design, execute, or support public participation, deliberation, or collaborative public action (e.g. Everyday Democracy).

The website: http://participedia.net