Do elected officials like democracy? No 26-27, 2020/1 - pagesPages 5 to 5AcknowledgmentsBy Guillaume Petit, Marion Paoletti, Rémi LefebvrePages 7 to 40Do elected officials like democracy?By Guillaume PetitPages 41 to 75Local councilors and public participation. The sociology of a category of elected officials, between functional specialization and positional subordinationBy Rémi Lefebvre, Julien Talpin, Guillaume PetitPages 77 to 103Participatory democracy to the rescue of the paternalism of elected officials. On the political uses of a participatory budgetBy Jessica SaintyPages 105 to 134The metropolis, a matter for elected officials. Putting citizens at a distance in territorial reform (2012–2016)By Christophe ParnetPages 135 to 164Participatory budgeting is still partisan. The (de-)partisanization of Parisian participatory budgets (2014–2020)By William Arhip-PatersonPages 165 to 192Public participation in planning and urban development in Quebec: Mayors facing the deliberative imperativeBy Mario Gauthier, Lynda Gagnon, Guy Chiasson, Anne MévellecPages 193 to 222Relationship to the representative system and support for direct and deliberative democracy. A comparative analysis of the attitudes of national elected officials in EuropeBy Caroline ClosePages 223 to 249Emancipating inhabitants in order to support environmental public policies: An evaluation of a pilot scheme on adaptive governanceBy Sylvie Houte, David Lorant, Nicolas BecuPages 251 to 275Participation and public funding in an associative context. The case of theater associations in a Turin neighborhoodBy Francesca QuerciaPages 277 to 296The roots of political disaffection. Depoliticization, neoliberalism, and democratic alternativesBy Maïté Juan