Procesos participativos y crisis: ¿participación como respuesta a la crisis o participación recortada por la crisis?

How have local participatory processes been affected by the grim economic, social and political crisis that has afflicted Spain since 2008? While other consequences of the crisis have been widely discussed, hardly any attention has been paid to this issue. To try and address the question we used a d...

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Published inMélanges de la Casa de Velázquez Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 151 - 166
Main Authors Joan Font, Pau Alarcón, Carolina Galais, Graham Smith
Format Journal Article
LanguageSpanish
Published Casa de Velázquez 01.11.2017
Subjects
democracy
local politics
municipal
participation
public policies
social demands
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Summary:How have local participatory processes been affected by the grim economic, social and political crisis that has afflicted Spain since 2008? While other consequences of the crisis have been widely discussed, hardly any attention has been paid to this issue. To try and address the question we used a data base of citizens’ proposals received in local participatory processes during the 2007-2011 legislature; and we observed how social demands and institutional responses changed between the period leading up to the crisis and its aegis. The results suggest a moderate degree of change, possibly due to the growing modesty of these proposals. However, there were some changes, and it was observed that in both dimensions of these processes, some proposals were more austere but more innovative and the executive institutions rather less so, especially in the case of more costly ideas.
ISSN:0076-230X
2173-1306
DOI:10.4000/mcv.7794