How can citizens get more involved in local political decisions that can change their daily lives? Is the idea of an elected mayor a solution for this? Should there be local referenda? Or does it need more changes in the local democracy? A programme in Dutch.

Maarten Hajer, professior in Urban Futures at Utrecht university gives an introduction on the present state of of democracy. He gives his view on the thesis of the American political scientist Barber in his book 'If Mayors Ruled the World', that cities get more and more power, and states lose power. Does that apply to The Netherlands too?