The impact of participatory decision-making on legitimacy in planning: Dilemmas and tensions in the Dutch municipal planning context

Participative decision-making can offer a route toward more democratic and legitimate decisions in spatial planning processes. Although more legitimacy is sometimes presented as a result of participative decision-making, this relationship is more complex and not necessarily causal. This paper explores the relationship between the forms of legitimacy and participation by utilising the input, throughput, and output conceptualisation. In our three cases, we find that participative methods impact legitimacy differently. Participation relates to either throughput or output legitimacy depending on t... Mehr ...