Graduate Student, Public Policy
Thesis Title: Advocacy Initiatives for Public Culture and Democratic Vision in Transition Countries: Experiences from Romania
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Dragan Klaic
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This paper seeks to give an account of the contribution of advocacy initiatives for public culture to policy change. Experiences from Romania between 1990 and 2009 are explored through a contrastive theoretical framework of pluralist and deliberative democracy. The paper advances the argument that advocacy initiatives for public culture with a deliberative core can permeate the decision-making configuration and lead to policy change, even in a pluralist democracy participation infrastructure. At the same time, in cases in which a univocal source of legitimation of the narrative storyline of policy-making is mainstreamed within the decision-making discourse, bottom-up participation and deliberative democracy
bear the risk of being rendered powerless of any real potential to influence policy-making in culture. Policy implications for current advocacy initiatives for public culture are considered.
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