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Tracing the Democratic Deficit: An Actor-Network Theory Approach to an Urban Governance Network in Madrid

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This chapter traces the role played by the Democratic Deficit during the deployment of an Urban Governance Network in the City of Madrid. The Deficit is considered as an actor—rather than a feature of Urban Governance- that helps authorities, private actors and citizens, to contest or sustain configurations of power, politicise or de-politicisice topics related to urban life, and ultimately to produce the materiality of the City.

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  1. Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

    Guillén Hiram Torres Sepúlveda

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  1. ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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  2. ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Marko Marskamp

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    Julio Paulos

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    Jean Ruegg

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Sepúlveda, G.H.T. (2018). Tracing the Democratic Deficit: An Actor-Network Theory Approach to an Urban Governance Network in Madrid. In: Kurath, M., Marskamp, M., Paulos, J., Ruegg, J. (eds) Relational Planning. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60462-6_7

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