... environments; recontextualizing and historicizing what is really “new” about the new public participation, including the concepts of participatory budgeting and Asset-Based Community Development; linking the new public participation to larger trends in the reinforcement of inequality in the present moment...

... democracy. It considers the institutional interests in public legitimation through participation and the highly unequal context in which elite-facilitated civic innovations, known as the “new public participation,” have taken root. It also looks at how participatory democratic practices (or those...