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100			_aSorensen, Eva and Bentzen, Tina _928497
245			_aPublic administrators in interactive democracy: A multi-paradigmatic approach
260			_aLocal Government Studies
300			_a46(1), Feb, 2020: p.139-162
520			_aCurrently, interactive forms of democracy that bring local politicians into dialogue and collaboration with relevant and affected citizens are mushrooming. While some research has investigated how interactive democracy affects citizens and politicians, we know little about what interactive democracy means for public administrators. This article presents the results of a case study of role perceptions and coping strategies among public administrators assisting a new type of interactive political committee in two Nordic municipalities. Guided by a multi-paradigmatic conceptual framework featuring public administrators’ roles and coping strategies in interactive governance, the study shows that individual public administrators identify with different administrative roles, and that political and administrative leadership sentiments condition their choice of coping strategies. Moreover, the coping strategy that public administrators select to handle intra- and inter-paradigmatic role dilemmas can have dire consequences for the interplay between interactive democracy and local representative government. – Reproduced
650			_aInteractive democracy, Administrative roles, Camping strategies, Administrative paradigms _926875
773			_aLocal Government Studies
906			_aPUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
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