🤔 What's the point of democratic innovation? Can it address crurrent crises and build democracies for the future? 💡In this new article @adrianbua.bsky.social and I argue that the field needs to strengthen its change-making orientation and capacity. Open access 👉🏼 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

www.ara.cat/opinio/llei-... Catalunya té una assignatura pendent: aprovar la seva llei de participació ciutadana. www.ara.cat/opinio/llei-... @ara.cat @colpiscat.bsky.social @decidim.org @oliverescobar.bsky.social @jlmarti.bsky.social @adrianbua.bsky.social @sbussu.bsky.social

Just published an article w. @oliverescobar.bsky.social: "Democratic Innovation for Change: A Participatory Corrective to Deliberative Hegemony" Read the article open access here (summary thread below) lnkd.in/ez9hRMWy

NEW ✨ Participatory Spaces Under Urban Capitalism: Contesting the Boundaries of Democratic Practices by @markusholdo.bsky.social @lund-university.bsky.social @comppollu.bsky.social Review by @adrianbua.bsky.social @igopbcn.bsky.social @uab.cat #Politics #Democracy

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) #PSA2025 @psapdd.bsky.social @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

My review of @welpita.bsky.social "the Will of the People" where she analyses the relationship between democracy, participation and populism - bringing a sober look and much needed dose of realism to participation and democratization

🚀 Thrilled to see The Will of the People sparking debate! 📢 A thoughtful review by @adrianbua.bsky.social explores how the book tackles democracy’s paradoxes—from participation’s promises to perversions. @democratization.bsky.social 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Watch this. And then watch it again.

Pero qué buenos están los seminarios abiertos de la UAB. Agradecida con la oportunidad de presentar mi Will of the people y comentar un trabajo de @adrianbua.bsky.social @ricardgoma.bsky.social @margaleon.bsky.social @ahcdemocracy.bsky.social Info: igop.uab.cat/es/2024/11/1...

Excited about a new book project, tentatively titled - "Critical Democratic Realism: a Transformative Political Economy of Democratic Innovation", contract just signed with Bristol University Press

Research on #DemocraticInnovations has been mushrooming. While in Latam the focus is on how it articulates (de)democratizing trends, in Europe the mainstream focus is on particular formats (mostly) mini-publics. This 📘 goes beyond that rb.gy/vmkzio @sbussu.bsky.social @adrianbua.bsky.social #review