Democratizing representative democracy: ; Démocratiser le lien représentatif : une sociologie politique des citoyen·nes-contrôleur·euses ; Democratizing representative democracy:: a political sociology of citizen-monitors

International audience ; Citizen audit is about investigating, as citizens, local public finances and holding elected officials and decision-makers to account. By studying the trajectories of activists engaging in this practice in France, Spain, and Belgium, this article contends that dissatisfaction with existing representative institutions does not necessarily lead to political apathy or to the delegitimisation of representative democracy. The aim of the paper is to contribute to the literature on critical political judgments. It highlights the critical dispositions of the activists, embedde... Mehr ...