Democratic milieu: Analysing democratic practice in the new governance

Farrelly, Michael; Skelcher, Chris

Abstract

Understanding emerging democratic practices in the context of the wider, and changing, system of governance in which they operate poses problems for research, not least because broader concepts, such as political culture, focus on historical patterns and are not able to capture contemporary developments. We approach this problems by proposing the concept ‘democratic milieu’ as a focus for interpretive understanding of the way in which the structuring legacy of conventions about ‘how we do democracy’ interacts with the agency offered by new policy spaces and discourses about ‘how we might do democracy’.

Citation

Farrelly, M., & Skelcher, C. (2010). Democratic milieu: Analysing democratic practice in the new governance. Representation, 46(2), 139 - 150. https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2010.485796

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 1, 2010
• Online Publication Date: Jul 16, 2010
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2010
• Deposit Date: Apr 1, 2022
• Journal: Representation
• Print ISSN: 0034-4893
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 139 - 150
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2010.485796
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/423789