| Abstract: | The changing role of municipalities within the state action raises their concern for local civic engagement. Increased civic engagement benefits both local democracy and local governance, while exacerbating tensions between the two. If municipalities want to boost civic engagement, they have to understand all its dimensions and cannot reduce it to formal participation in decision making. This article proposes a typology of roles played by citizens in local communities. By segmenting local citizenship, this typology identifies and validates multiple manifestations of local civic engagement. It also reveals many challenges faced by local public management, which must focus less on what its administration does and more on the multiform contributions of its citizens. |
