Participation has mostly been studied from the standpoint of institutional analysis whose reflection focus was the 鈥渄eliberating鈥 citizen. Yet calls for participation are many and complex and are aimed at the citizen, the inhabitant, the user, as much as at the person. Among such calls are those of the new public management, of blogs and 2.0 Web culture, of newly set-up organizations devoted to debates around ideas or around community-involvemen
Participation and citizenship
As some bewail civic disengagement and others question representative democracy, analyzing people鈥檚 workaday social and political practices becomes a major issue in order to meet the challenge of a social life that integrates concerns for common goods.