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Introduction

Can Tocqueville Karaoke? Global Contrasts of Citizen Participation, the Arts and Development

ISBN: 978-1-78190-736-8, eISBN: 978-1-78190-737-5

Publication date: 15 July 2014

Abstract

This volume outlines a new framework for analysis of democratic participation and economic growth. The new framework joins two past traditions. Their background histories are clearly separate. Democratic participation ideas come mostly from Alexis de Tocqueville, while innovation/bohemian ideas driving the economy are largely inspired by Joseph Schumpeter and Jane Jacobs. New developments building on these core ideas are detailed in the first two sections of this volume. But these chapters in turn show that more detailed work within each tradition leads to an integration of the two: participation joins innovation. This is the main theme in the book’s third section, the buzz around arts and culture organizations, and how and why they are critical drivers for the new democratic politics and cutting edge economies. Buzz enters as a new resource, with new rules of the game. It does not dominate; it parallels other activities which continue.

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Clark, T.N. (2014), "Introduction", Can Tocqueville Karaoke? Global Contrasts of Citizen Participation, the Arts and Development (Research in Urban Policy, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-352020140000011013

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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