Exploring Citizen Participation in Smart
City
Development in
Mexico
City
: An institutional logics approach
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Exploring Citizen Participation in Smart
City
Development in
Mexico
City
: An institutional logics approach
Autor:
Pansera, Mario
;
Marsh, Alex
;
Owen, Richard
;
Flores López, Jesús Arturo
;
De Alba Ulloa, Jessica Lillian
Assuntos:
Bureaucracy
;
Case studies
;
Centralization
;
Cities
;
Citizen participation
;
Clientelism
;
Governance
;
Government agencies
;
Organization studies
;
Patronage
;
Smart cities
;
Social construction
;
Technocracy
É parte de:
Organization studies, 2023-10, Vol.44 (10), p.1679-1701
Descrição:
We explore smart
city
development, with a focus on the modalities of citizen participation, using an institutional logics approach. Taking
Mexico
City
as our case study, we describe the presence and dynamics of several logics influencing smart
city
development. At an organizational level we identify the bureaucratic and technocratic logics underpinning the practices of the governmental agency leading smart
city
development. Characterized by centralization and the pursuit of efficiency, and framed by a discourse of austerity and financial control, these logics promote a modality of citizen participation that is limited and unidirectional in nature, with citizens positioned largely as users. At a supra-organizational level, we identify a logic of active citizen participation in urban governance that is formalized in
city
laws. However, this logic is itself entangled in a logic of clientelism and patronage, manifested through networks of power. These logics work synergistically to limit broader, inclusive citizen participation in, and realization of benefits from, smart city agendas. We conclude that a richer understanding of institutional logics enhances the analysis of the social construction of the smart city in particular, situated contexts.
Editor:
London, England: SAGE Publications
Idioma:
Inglês