Biblioteca Digital de Vanguardia¿Democratic transformation or political control? Comparative analysis of institutional citizen participation in South America
Since the end of the 1980s, Latin America’s local governments have been experiencing a genuine political transformation. A part of this transformation implies the implementation of policies and institutions for citizen participation. Through a comparative analysis of four cases –Buenos Aires, Bogota...
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Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador
2011
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| author | Schneider, Cecilia Welp, Yanina |
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| description | Since the end of the 1980s, Latin America’s local governments have been experiencing a genuine political transformation. A part of this transformation implies the implementation of policies and institutions for citizen participation. Through a comparative analysis of four cases –Buenos Aires, Bogota, Caracas and Montevideo– this article explores how variables in the political context, such as citizen demand for participation, the existence of political will, the oppositional or allied relation between local and central governments, and the fragmentation and polarization of the local party system condition the origin and the reach of participatory designs present in the cities mentioned. To that end, the author proposes a typology of Institutional Citizen Participation –ICP– and some exploratory hypotheses to explain their emergence; institutions present in the case studies are systematized and connections are established between the design of the ICP and the dimensions of the political contexts analyzed; finally, conclusions are drawn. |
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| spelling | iconos-article-4442024-04-23T18:04:14Z ¿Democratic transformation or political control? Comparative analysis of institutional citizen participation in South America ¿Transformación democrática o control político?. Análisis comparado de la participación ciudadana institucional en América del Sur Schneider, Cecilia Welp, Yanina Citizen participation political will local governments decentralization Particiapación ciudadana Voluntad política Gobiernos locales Descentralización Citizen participation Political will Local governments Decentralization Since the end of the 1980s, Latin America’s local governments have been experiencing a genuine political transformation. A part of this transformation implies the implementation of policies and institutions for citizen participation. Through a comparative analysis of four cases –Buenos Aires, Bogota, Caracas and Montevideo– this article explores how variables in the political context, such as citizen demand for participation, the existence of political will, the oppositional or allied relation between local and central governments, and the fragmentation and polarization of the local party system condition the origin and the reach of participatory designs present in the cities mentioned. To that end, the author proposes a typology of Institutional Citizen Participation –ICP– and some exploratory hypotheses to explain their emergence; institutions present in the case studies are systematized and connections are established between the design of the ICP and the dimensions of the political contexts analyzed; finally, conclusions are drawn. Desde fines de los años ochenta, los gobiernos locales latinoamericanos vienen experimentando una verdadera transformación política. Parte de esta transformación es impulsada por la implementación de políticas e instituciones de participación ciudadana. A través del análisis comparado de cuatro casos –Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Caracas y Montevideo– este artículo explora la medida en que variables del contexto político, tales como la demanda ciudadana de participación, la existencia de voluntad política, la relación de oposición o alineamiento entre gobierno local y gobierno central o la fragmentación y polarización del sistema local de partidos, condicionan el origen y alcance de los diseños participativos presentes en dichas ciudades. Con este objetivo, se propone una tipología de la Participación Ciudadana Institucional –PCI– y unas hipótesis exploratorias para explicar su emergencia; luego se sistematizan las instituciones participativas presentes en los casos bajo estudio y se establecen conexiones entre el diseño de la PCI y las dimensiones del contexto político analizadas; finalmente se extraen conclusiones. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador 2011-05-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo evaluado por pares application/pdf https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/444 10.17141/iconos.40.2011.444 Íconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales; Núm. 40 (2011): Dossier: Nuevas instituciones participativas y democráticas en América Latina; 21-39 Íconos - Revista de Ciencias Sociales; n. 40 (2011): Dossier: Nuevas instituciones participativas y democráticas en América Latina; 21-39 Íconos. Revista de Ciencias Sociales; No. 40 (2011): Dossier: New participatory and democratic institutions in Latin America; 21-39 1390-8065 1390-1249 spa https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/444/430 Derechos de autor 2011 Cecilia Schneider, Yanina Welp https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/deed.es_ES |
| spellingShingle | Schneider, Cecilia Welp, Yanina ¿Democratic transformation or political control? Comparative analysis of institutional citizen participation in South America |
| title | ¿Democratic transformation or political control? Comparative analysis of institutional citizen participation in South America |
| title_full | ¿Democratic transformation or political control? Comparative analysis of institutional citizen participation in South America |
| title_fullStr | ¿Democratic transformation or political control? Comparative analysis of institutional citizen participation in South America |
| title_full_unstemmed | ¿Democratic transformation or political control? Comparative analysis of institutional citizen participation in South America |
| title_short | ¿Democratic transformation or political control? Comparative analysis of institutional citizen participation in South America |
| title_sort | ¿democratic transformation or political control? comparative analysis of institutional citizen participation in south america |
| url | https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/444 |