This paper reviews the various connections that can exist between the design of
participatory processes and the different kind of results that they can entail. It details how …

La creciente expansión de presupuestos participativos (PP) registrada a partir de la década
de 1980 en diferentes gobiernos locales del mundo, ha sido de gran interés para la …

Recent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the world in which citizens
have challenged what they see as a deterioration of democratic institutions and the very …

Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all
cities have developed opportunities for citizen involvement in strategic planning. The World …

The birth of democracies owes much to the interventions and mobilizations of ordinary
people. Yet many feel as though they have inherited democratic institutions which do not …

This collection explores conceptions and practices of democracy of social movement
organizations involved in global protest. Focusing on the global justice movement this book …

What happens to the proposals generated by participatory processes? One of the key
aspects of participatory processes that has been the subject of rare systematic analysis and …

Reconfiguring European States in Crisis offers a ground-breaking analysis by some of
Europe's leading political scientists, examining how the European national state and the …

While citizen participation in policymaking is on the rise worldwide, the scholarly debate
centring around its evaluation has not developed to the same extent. The article discusses …

Most research on participatory processes has stressed the positive effects that these
institutions have in the relationships between public authorities and civil society. This article …