This article analyzes the scholarship on variation among democracies and offers a proposal
intended to address the relative lack of consensus over the fundamental conceptual …

He puesto mucho cariño y esfuerzo en redactar estas páginas, quizá porque me siento muy
cercana a las preocupaciones, inquietudes y aspiraciones de tantos funcionarios y gestores …

At a time of growing concern over the fate of contemporary democracy this book shows how
vast differences between countries in forms of political conduct, and taken for granted …

This paper analyzes the award-winning e-participation initiative of the city council of Madrid,
Decide Madrid, to identify the critical success factors and the main barriers that are …

Despite the growing body of literature on participatory and collaborative governance, little is
known about citizens' motives for participation in such new governance arrangements. The …

Citizen participation is a central component of democratic governance. As participatory
schemes have grown in number and gained in social legitimacy over recent years, the …

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 …

If strategically implemented, crowdsourcing helps capture the intelligence of a variety of e-
participation actors, enabling them to share the leading role with the government in decision …

Public administrations need to find innovative approaches to solving changing problems
and to fulfilling their duties. Crowdsourcing in local governments could be defined as the use …

The models of direct and deliberative democracy are broadly considered the major
alternatives to representative democracy. So far, the two models have been merged under …