Klausen, J.E., Vabo,S.I. and Winsvold, M.  <br/><br/>
Competing perspectives on participatory arrangements: Explaining the attitudes of elected representatives 

 - International Political Science Review  
 - 44(5), Nov, 2023: p.694-709 
<br/><br/> In this article, we investigate elected representatives’ attitudes to citizen participation and the design of participatory arrangements. We distinguish between citizenship-oriented and governance-oriented attitudes. Whereas citizenship-oriented attitudes imply designing participatory arrangements to safeguard the democratic values of equality, transparency and inclusion, governance-oriented attitudes imply designing participatory arrangements to support elected representatives in their roles. Based on unique data from a web-based survey sent to all local councillors in Norway, we found that although Norwegian local councillors tend towards citizenship-oriented rather than governance-oriented attitudes to citizen participation, there is great variation between councillors in this respect. Analysing strategic and ideological explanations, we found that right-wing politicians tend to hold more governance-oriented attitudes than left-wing politicians do. Strategic considerations seem to have no effect on councillors in power in this regard.- Reproduced <br/><br/><br/><br/>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01925121221092600<br/>