Practices of Freedom: Decentred Governance, Conflict and Democratic Participation

1. Introduction: democracy, conflict and participation in decentred governance Steven Griggs, Aletta J. Norval and Hendrik Wagenaar 2. Governance-driven democratisation Mark E. Warren 3. Beyond deliberation: agonistic and aversive grammars of democracy: the question of criteria Aletta J. Norval 4. Designing democratic institutions for decentred governance: the Council of Europe's acquis Vivien Lowndes and Lawrence Pratchett 5. Assessing the democratic anchorage of governance networks Eva Sorenson and Jacob Torfing 6. Learning through contested governance: the practice of agonistic intersubjectivity John Forester 7. Decentred legitimacy in the new community governance Steven Connelly 8. Designing 'the political' in (and out) of neighbourhood governance Helen Sullivan 9. Participatory governance in practice Therese O'Toole and Richard Gale 10. The agonistic experience: informality, hegemony, and the prospects for democratic governance Hendrik Wagenaar 11. Insurgent citizenship: radicalism, co-optation, and neighbourhood geopolitics among the Palestinian citizens of Haifa, Israel Joseph Leibovitz.