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The Professionalization of Public Participation is an edited collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars examining the emerging profession of public participation professionals.
Public participation professionals are persons working in the public, private, or third sectors that are paid to design, implement, and/or facilitate participatory forums. The rapid growth and proliferation of participatory arrangements call for expertise in the organizing of public participation. The contributors analyze the professionalization of this practice in different countries (United States, France, Canada, Italy, and the United Kingdom) to see how their actions challenge the development of participatory arrangements. Designing such processes is a delicate activity, since it may affect not only the quality of the processes and their legitimacy, but also their capacity to influence decision-making.
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Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: The Public Participation Professional: An Invisible but Pivotal Actor in Participatory Processes
Laurence Bherer , Mario Gauthier , and Louis Simard
SECTION I
Specific Context
2 Innovating Public Participation: The Role of PPPs and Institutions in Italy
Rodolfo Lewanski and Stefania Ravazzi
3 The Participatory Democracy Market in France: Between Standardization and Fragmentation
Alice Mazeaud and Magali Nonjon
4 Public Participation Professionals in the US: Confronting Challenges of Equity and Empowerment
Caroline W. Lee
5 Who's the Client? The Sponsor, Citizens, or the Participatory Process?: Tensions in the Quebec
(Canada) Public Participation Field
Laurence Bherer , Mario Gauthier, and Louis Simard
6 Expertise, Professionalization, and Reflexivity in Mediating Public Participation: Perspectives from
STS and British Science and Democracy
Jason Chilvers
SECTION II
Actors and Networks
7 Making It Official: Participation Professionals and the Challenge of Institutionalizing Deliberative Democracy
Oliver Escobar
8 Negotiating Professional Boundaries : Learning from Collaboration between Academics and Deliberation Practitioners
David Kahane and Kristjana Loptson
9 Making Citizen Panels a "Universal Bestseller": Transnational Mobilization Practices of Public
Participation Advocates
Nina Amelung and Louisa Grabner
10 Learning to Facilitate : Implications for Skill Development in the Public Participation Field
Kathryn S . Quick and Jodi R . Sandfort
11 Conclusion: Do the Institutionalization and Professionalization of Public Participation and
the Enthusiasm for Participatory Processes Guarantee Greater Democratization?
Laurence Bherer, Mario Gauthier, and Louis Simard
Contributors
Index
