Citizen Participation in Transitional Society

Abstract

Arnstein used the metaphor of a ladder to describe various examples of citizen participation-from securing political rights to obtaining economic justice. This chapter deals with basic operational recommendations for improving the participatory planning approach in a highly challenging society. Four periods of Serbian planning history, following the main transformation of Yugoslavia since the Second World War, are identified: integrated planning, participatory planning, centralized planning, and market-led planning. Looking through the lens of public participation in plan making, even the first postwar planning law prescribed the procedure of public insight into the draft version of a plan, while the laws from 1960s and 1970s considered citizen participation as societal support and plan verification. The Constitution from 1974 prescribed further territorial decentralization of the federal state, more developed mechanisms for citizen participation, and support for the self-management system. Crucial laws clearly illustrate the weak position of spatial planning in the transitional social and political context of Serbia.

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