Institutions, Incentives and Public Participation. Unveiling the Myth of Public Participation in Coastal Policy Planning in the Netherlands

摘要: This paper examines coastal management institutions in the Netherlands light ofV&W's desire to mainstream public participation policy processes. First, it teases institutional outcomes and how they shape stakeholder within highly democratic decentralized system of planning. It reveals that, despite presence frameworks management, involvement broad-based is far from being achieved. argues a result incentive structures which undermine efforts foster people-centered policy processes by enabling minority group sector, while excluding majority non-state actors public. that current structure resultant incentives are not bad practice but product unique ecological social-cultural characteristics county. The role floods rising sea levels have played shaping was noted this as architect existing institutions. concludes for people-centered blossom institutions, right able pull people toparticipate need be established. In addition makers ought sensitive contextual uniqueness regions before adopting policy-planning methods has tended explain growing gap between practice.