Navigating Polycentric Governance from a Citizen’s Perspective: The Rising New Middle Classes Respond

Alan Fowler and Kees Biekart
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Alan Fowler: Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Civic Innovation Research Initiative (CIRI)
Kees Biekart: Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Civic Innovation Research Initiative (CIRI)

The European Journal of Development Research, 2016, vol. 28, issue 4, No 11, 705-721

Abstract: Abstract A global growth in the middle class is anticipated to influence development choices and the evolution of domestic polities associated with a ‘rising‘ South. Responding to the local effects of a multi-polar world order will add to a citizen’s existing need to navigate national polycentrism. Exploration of this citizen-centric phenomenon introduces a new, comprehensive analytic framework that combines public with private governance, the latter categorised as modern, traditional and virtual. These categories are used to compare and contrast events of mass activism in Brazil and Turkey. It is argued that electronically networked agency played a significant role in people’s navigation involving scale, mobilization and self-organisation. In addition, a polycentric analysis suggests that a stronger middle class ‘voice’ for public accountability may be offset by processes that privatise domestic governance, reflecting what is happening internationally.

Keywords: polycentric governance; activisms; middle classes; Brazil; Turkey; FIFA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1057/ejdr.2015.44

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