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Glückwunsch und viel Erfolg!

Thanks Alvaro! I have bookmarked that 👌

The paper concludes by considering normative implications of viewing participatory innovation as a simulation of democratic reform – relating my proposition to arguments made by @alvarooleart.bsky.social, @tomtheuns.bsky.social, and @luisbouzagarcia.bsky.social

Open access: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

The analysis describes how this field constructs the *demand* for citizen involvement that the innovations claim to address; where the primary *audience* of its practice becomes the sponsors and practitioners themselves; and where the *competence* and standards can be constructed by the field itself

The proposition is grounded in an original empirical study of elite discourse and interactions: It explores how this performance is produced both *by* the Commission with a field of advocates, experts, and participation professionals, and designed primarily *for* this same field of actors

Rather than a strategy aimed at an external audience, participatory innovations may be primarily directed at their institutional sponsors as a means of self-legitimation (Barker). They can serve that purpose not by realising democratic participation but by enacting a performance of democratic reform