RECENT PUBLICATIONS ON DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION AND COMPARATIVE PARTICIPATION FOR DOWNLOAD

I am pleased to share with you recent publications related to cities and more generally, democratic participation, 

• Citizen Participation and The Rise of Digital Media Platforms in Smart Governance and Smart Cities. 2019. International Journal for E-Planning Research.  Gil, O., Cortés-Cediel, M. E., Cantador, I. Abstract is enclosed below and you may access the full article as well through the UCM repository link. 

  
  
• For fans, I also recommend the Book ¿Como se gobernan las ciudades?, comparing over eight world city cases, including Shanghai, Iskandar, nine cities in Japan, New York, Amsterdam, Málaga, Tarragona and Santander. Download the full book here

At the moment with my team of researchers at UCM (TFGs, TFMs, PhD) we work in progress on:

1. The philosophical differences in participation in public administrtion in China and western countries
2. Political participation in democracies 
3. Ideas and the objectives of the Millenium
4. Ideas and the nature-based-city
5. Ideas and the grand design of Madrid Nuevo Norte neighborhood
6. Ideas and how financial ratings influence regimes, local, regional and national levels
   

The IJERP article

• Abstract. Many governments and firms do believe that technology can supplant governance and human responsibility. This belief poses the question of who will really benefit from smart cities. This article explores this fundamental question through the study of digital media platforms. The ultimate goal is to understand the link between e-governance and smart city initiatives in our cases of study by testing whether these projects are explicitly for citizens. This article shows how e-platforms represent the use of information and communication technologies with the aim of encouraging citizen participation in decision-making processes, improving information and service delivery, reinforcing transparency, accountability, as well as credibility. Thirteen digital media platforms are surveyed, mostly in cities across countries. These e-platforms raise implementation challenges for both firms and policy makers, and new research opportunities for scientist to build up new research and to experiment with the aim to make the benefits for citizens wider and the participatory dimension stronger.
  
  International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR) Volume 8, Issue 1, January - March 2019 Indexed by: Compendex (Elsevier Engineering Index), INSPEC, SCOPUS, Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI).
  ISSN: 2160-9918; EISSN: 2160-9926; Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Nunes Silva (University of Lisbon, Portugal)