Crisis of the traditional government model. Thinking about participative and proximity governance

In liberal-hue democracies, during the last two decades a progressive, gradual transition has developed-unresolved in many items-,toward alternate models of social conflict regulation, driven by a growing skepticism about traditional ways of government. This article reflects on such a transition between traditional and emerging ways of government and social regulation, starting from a double theoretical and normative assumption, that shall be specify from the beginning. The article is organized around three axes. First, the crisis of the traditional government model and its progressive theoretical review is considered, which results in certain scholar consensus around the conception of governance or relational government. The second axis of this work is to think about the participative dimension of the new government model. The third part is made up by reflections on the proximity dimension-strengthening local spaces of government and the articulation of multilevel networks with strong components of municipal leadership.