Citizens' Initiatives: How Local Governments Fill their Facilitative Role

Local Government Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 395-414

  Bakker, Judith ^a   Denters, Bas ^a   Oude Vrielink, Mirjan ^a   Klok, Pieter Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

citizen's engagement; Citizen's initiatives; co governance; local democracy; neighbourhood approach

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; DEMOCRACY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; NEIGHBORHOOD;

EID: 84866329370     PISSN: 03003930     EISSN: 17439388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2012.698240     Document Type: Article

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