1. Introduction: democracy, conflict and participation in decentred
governance Steven Griggs, Aletta J. Norval and Hendrik Wagenaar; 2.
Governance-driven democratisation Mark E. Warren; 3. Beyond deliberation:
agonistic and aversive grammars of democracy: the question of criteria
Aletta J. Norval; 4. Designing democratic institutions for decentred
governance: the Council of Europe's acquis Vivien Lowndes and Lawrence
Pratchett; 5. Assessing the democratic anchorage of governance networks Eva
Sørenson and Jacob Torfing; 6. Learning through contested governance: the
practice of agonistic intersubjectivity John Forester; 7. Decentred
legitimacy in the new community governance Steven Connelly; 8. Designing
'the political' in (and out) of neighbourhood governance Helen Sullivan; 9.
Participatory governance in practice Therese O'Toole and Richard Gale; 10.
The agonistic experience: informality, hegemony, and the prospects for
democratic governance Hendrik Wagenaar; 11. Insurgent citizenship:
radicalism, co-optation, and neighbourhood geopolitics among the
Palestinian citizens of Haifa, Israel Joseph Leibovitz.

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