Democracy and governance networks: compatible or not?

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Collaborative environmental governance: Achieving collective action in social-ecological systems (2017, background): “Hence, governance through multiactor collaboration is, as compared tomore traditional and bureaucratic modes of government, encumbered with critical issues pertaining to various democratic qualities such as transparency of decision-making procedures, legitimacy and accountability, and procedural fai”
Lost in diffusion? How collaborative arrangements lead to an accountability paradox (2011, background): “Hence, the question of how to align sufficient democratic guarantees with business-like performance in partnerships seems critical (De Rynck and Voets, 2006; Klijn and Skelcher, 2007; Sørensen and Torfing, 2005).”
Self-Organized Governance Networks for Ecosystem Management: Who Is Accountable? (2011, methodology): “Semi-structured open-ended interviews (Kvale 1996), most of them via telephone, were conducted with 23 key persons.”
Governance and Governance Networks in Europe (2008, background): “One could even say that, in governance processes, politics is ‘dissolved’ or ‘displaced’ from the classical political institutions in a network of actors (Koppenjan and Klijn 2004; Klijn and Skelcher 2007).7 (4) Governance is composed of self-governing networks.”