This study aims to analyze the implications of the liberal, deliberative, and participative democracy perspectives from a normative orientation to develop the politics of life of institutional participative governance. The normative assumptions on institutional participatory governance reinforce the approaches of liberal, deliberative, and representative democracy used by citizens, civil society, and government institutions, considering the complexity of the contextual relationships. The method employed is the analytic-reflective based on the review of theoretical and empirical literature. It is concluded that the assumptions critical on a normative approach are basic for the analysis of the implications of liberal, deliberative, and participative democracy on the development of the different domains of life politics of any society.
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The notion of participatory governance has a normative orientation is semantic incompatible and contradictory term opposing governance and participation (Fung & Wright, 2003). The normative analysis and technological assessment of participatory governance arrangements is a hidden bias in the set-up of participatory arrangements. The risk of ambiguity is visible due to the normative and analytical overlapping in social and political issues in their combination to form the concept of participatory governance. Normative frameworks for political rescale is relevant in the restructuring of local governments to provide guidelines for action.
Phenomena of politics of life are dynamic, unpredictable, unruly, that poses specific challenges to public participation and participatory governance because is about governing the future in all areas of governance by building scenarios, which are not always normatively neutral. The politics of life refers to dimensions that are limited under human control or under limitations to socio-political steering and control, connected to normative, moral, and value-based factors, sense of responsibility towards non-human nature and future generations. The normative dimension of participative democracy is framed as the moral tool that enhances and endows community development with a moral force Tunio, 2020; Katpar., et al., 2020; Gilal. Et al., 2020; Katper, et al., 2017; Tunio, et al., 2021).
Participatory politics deals with public conflicts and disputes through deliberation, decision, and action processes (Barber 1984, p.8/151). Institutional participatory governance needs to be supported by sufficient, more reliable, and uncontested evidence based on consensual normative criteria for taking the appropriate action in the evolving society. This action is linked to another features of life politics governance which are constantly evolving and manifesting over time.