主   题：Democratic Governance and Its Transfer: Everyday Neoliberalism, Hegemony and the Prospects for Democratic Renewal
主讲人：Hendrik Wagenaar   Professor of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield, UK.   
主持人：郑振清 294俄罗斯专享会副教授 
评论人：苏毓淞 清华大学社会科学学院政治学系副教授 
时  间：2015年12月7日（星期一）上午 9:30—11:30
地  点：公管学院421教室

主讲人简介：

Hendrik Wagenaar is a Professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield. His research focuses on governance, citizen participation, administrative practice, and interpretive policy analysis. He has published widely in journals such as American Review of Public Administration, Public Administration Review and Urban Studies. He is author of  Deliberative policy analysis（Cambridge University Press, 2003）, Meaning in Action: Interpretation and Dialogue in Policy Analysis（Routledge, 2011）and Practices of Freedom: Decentred Governance, Conflict and Democratic Participation（Cambridge University Press, 2014). 

讲座内容：

This lecture will think over the far-reaching political aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis and focuses on the mechanism and operation of public participation in contemporary liberal-electoral democracy. The lecturer argues that more public participation or interactive governance, important as these are in their own right, do not necessarily result in an expansion or deepening of institutionalized liberal democracy. On the contrary this type of democratic innovation seems to go hand in hand with democratic impairment. The lecturer uses several cases of financial reform to suggest that civic sphere democratic innovation might be regarded as a reaction to a decline of the scope and quality of democracy. The lecturer also discusses the possibilities for overcoming this hegemony through the gradual transfer of democratically innovative civic sphere practices into the institutional framework of liberal democracy.