Political decision making, governance shifts and Scottish animal reintroductions: are democratic principles at stake?

Koen Arts, Anke Fischer and Ren� van der Wal

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2014, vol. 57, issue 4, 612-628

Abstract: Contemporary governance systems have been characterised as 'multi-actor' and 'multi-level', but the consequences of such greater complexity for core principles of democracy remain uncertain. To investigate the effects of these late-modern governance shifts, we used political decision making on Scottish reintroductions of charismatic animals as a case study. Based on interviews with key actors engaged in the reintroduction of the white-tailed eagle, beaver and (potentially) lynx, we analysed the impact of governance shifts against four selected democratic principles. We found that new modes of governance can make decision-making processes look better than they actually are, and may even harm democratic principles.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2012.758627

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