La participation à l’échelle régionale.

Sintomer, Yves et Julien Talpin (dir.). 2011. La démocratie participative au-delà de la proximité. Le Poitou-Charentes et l’échelle régionale. Rennes : Presses Universitaires de Rennes.

The book edited by Julien Talpin and Yves Sintomer is a good opportunity to analyse the plurality of participatory scales. The Poitou-Charentes region is often considered as the cradle of participatory democracy ; this case-study helps to identify the specificity of this type of democracy at a regional level. What is it possible to infer from the evaluation of these instruments in France and in other countries ? [...]