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-involvement in a post-Welfare State regime. These admonitions concern various forms of participation, calling for both theoretical and empirical analysis in order to understand the relationship people have with their communities and society鈥檚 democratic institutions.
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.
Research axis
Director
- , Full Professor, School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, University of Ottawa
- , Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa
Research Associates
- , Professor, Departement of Social Sciences, Universit茅 du Qu茅bec en Outaouais
- , Professor, Centre Urbanisation Culture et Soci茅t茅, Institut national de la recherche scientifique
- , Professor, Departement of management, HEC-Montr茅al
- , Professor, Faculty of Education, Universit茅 d鈥橭ttawa
- , Visiting Professor, School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, University of Ottawa
- , Assistant Professor, School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, University of Ottawa