Working Groups Collection
Assessment of participation policies from Ibero-American cities
Juan Merida. Gisela Signorelli. Mariano Suárez Elías. [Coordinators]
Leonel Del Prado. Humberto Meza. Corina Echavarría. Gisela Signorelli. Luciano Fedozzi. Henrique Dias Porto. Alberto León Gutiérrez Tamayo. Ana María Navia Hermida. Catherine Vieira Agudelo. Liliana María Sánchez Mazo. Lucas Andrés Quintero Velásquez. Nancy Andrea Belalcázar Benavides. Paola Andrea Ríos Arias. Paula Andrea Rosero Lombana. Izaro Gorostidi Bidaurrazaga. Igor Ahedo Gurrutxaga. Imanol Telleria. Andere Ormazabal Gastón. Jone Martínez-Palacios. Rosa Ynés Alacio García. Luis Tellez Arana. María Cleana Díaz Ortega. Sara Raquel López Cristaldo. Natalie Robaina. Mayda Burjel Verstraete. Mariano Suárez Elías. Marisol Cabrera Fernández. [Chapter Authors]
ISBN 978-631-308-267-4
CLACSO.
Buenos Aires.
out of 2026
The brief history of citizen participation institutions—the concept arose with modern democracies, since there is no citizenship without the rule of law and pluralism—has revolved around fluctuating commitments. These commitments oscillate between transformative hopes and disillusionment with limited results, sometimes even the opposite of what was expected. However, putting this history into perspective reveals a general advance both toward greater inclusion of groups holding political rights and toward the expansion of institutional formats and objectives (constitutional reforms, veto power, sectoral policies, local budgets, etc.) for participation.
