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Co-production and Voice in Policymaking: Participatory Processes in the European Periphery
| Resumo: | Co-production is now the gold standard in policymaking, characterised by national and international actors with diferent types of knowledge working together to contribute to a collaborative decision-making process. The benefts of co-production in policymaking can include improved knowledge generation that merges practice-centred, political and technical knowledge and incorporates local knowledges to provide complementary information and increase ownership over policymaking processes. Nevertheless, it can also present pitfalls such as multiple and diverging interests, incomplete and asymmetric information, and resource asymmetries and elite capture as highlighted by Bender in (Eur J Dev Res, 2022). By reviewing a case in the European periphery, we document and illustrate situations of collaboration and confict, benefts and pitfalls resulting from policymaking co-production, throughout recent Portuguese history and in present-day participatory budget initiatives. From competing national actors to infuences from the Global North and Global South, the fnal outcome refects a learning process in collaboration but also underlying power struggles. |
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| Autores principais: | Goulart, Pedro |
| Outros Autores: | Falanga, Roberto |
| Assunto: | Co-production; Policymaking; Types of knowledge; Participatory budgeting; Confict; Portugal |
| Ano: | 2022 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | Co-production is now the gold standard in policymaking, characterised by national and international actors with diferent types of knowledge working together to contribute to a collaborative decision-making process. The benefts of co-production in policymaking can include improved knowledge generation that merges practice-centred, political and technical knowledge and incorporates local knowledges to provide complementary information and increase ownership over policymaking processes. Nevertheless, it can also present pitfalls such as multiple and diverging interests, incomplete and asymmetric information, and resource asymmetries and elite capture as highlighted by Bender in (Eur J Dev Res, 2022). By reviewing a case in the European periphery, we document and illustrate situations of collaboration and confict, benefts and pitfalls resulting from policymaking co-production, throughout recent Portuguese history and in present-day participatory budget initiatives. From competing national actors to infuences from the Global North and Global South, the fnal outcome refects a learning process in collaboration but also underlying power struggles. |
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