Abstract

Citizen dialogue as a method is used in municipalities to allow citizens to speak. In additionto method, citizen dialogue can also be defined as a previous project to involve citizen to be apart of decision making. The project was created by Sweden's municipalities and regions inorder to strengthen civic participation and deliberation. In this essay, policy documents areanalyzed to see how grassroots bureaucrats in Västerås have room for maneuver from adeliberative democracy perspective. To see to what extent it meets the participatorydemocratic values such as participation, influence and roles and relationships. This is donethrough analysis of action plans and policy documents. To see how grassroots bureaucrats,based on their room for maneuver, are expressed in deliberative democracy. Based on threefactors such as: Forms of participation, influence and roles and relationships. To see how it istaken in is expressed in the city of Västerås based on the material that has been collected.This should be investigated under these research questions

- How do action plans and policy documents in the city of Västerås take into account theparticipation of grassroots bureaucrats from an implementation process perspective?

- How do action plans and policy documents in the city of Västerås take into account theinfluence of grassroots bureaucrats from an implementation process perspective?

- How do action plans and policy documents in the city of Västerås take into account theroles and relationships of grassroots bureaucrats from an implementation processperspective?

The conclusion of this essay clearly shows that citizen dialogue can be seen as deliberativeprocesses as grassroots bureaucrats within their scope of action based on theory and withpolicy documents as a basis. With the shortcomings that exist in representative democracy,grassroots bureaucrats can be seen as an important component for deliberative elements inVästerås.

Keywords: grassroots bureaucrats, citizen dialogue, participatory democracy, deliberativedemocracy, participation, influence, roles and relationships