BISHOP, Patrick <br/><br/>
Mapping public participation in policy choices 

 -  2002 
<br/><br/> In an era of democratic discontent, more and better participation in policy making has become a standard expectation. Yet it is rarely clear what counts as participation, and how the many practices loosely bundled under the label should be understood. This paper has a modest undergrowth-clearing objective: to examine assumptions behind competing typologies of participation, and to propose a classification framework less laden by idealist notion of democracy