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

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  • Koen Arts
  • Anke Fischer
  • Ren� van der Wal

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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.

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  • Koen Arts & Anke Fischer & Ren� van der Wal, 2014. "Political decision making, governance shifts and Scottish animal reintroductions: are democratic principles at stake?," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 57(4), pages 612-628, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:57:y:2014:i:4:p:612-628
    DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2012.758627
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    1. Martin, Alison & Fischer, Anke & McMorran, Rob & Smith, Melanie, 2021. "Taming rewilding - from the ecological to the social: How rewilding discourse in Scotland has come to include people," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 111(C).
    2. Yasmine Willi & Marco Pütz & Martin Müller, 2018. "Towards a versatile and multidimensional framework to analyse regional governance," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 36(5), pages 775-795, August.

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