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The deliberative turn in participation: the problem of inclusion and deliberative opportunities in participatory budgeting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Ernesto Ganuza  and
Francisco Francés
Ernesto Ganuza*
Affiliation:
Researcher, Institute for Advanced Social Studies, Spanish Council of Scientific Research, Córdoba, Spain
Francisco Francés
Affiliation:
Lecturer, Department of Sociology II, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
*
* E-mail: eganuza@iesa.csic.es
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Abstract

Participation has undergone a communicative shift, which has favoured the organization of new participatory processes based on classic principles of deliberation theory. These experiments go beyond traditional protest: they include a communicative element with the aim of defining a public politics, which places them alongside models of deliberative governance. The present work sets out the characteristics of these new instruments (participatory budgeting, PB) in order to find out which problems deliberative governance initiatives are faced with. The conclusions tell us that the inequalities in participation are significant. Nevertheless, PB enables most participants to make effective use of their opportunities for deliberation. From this standpoint, the challenge for deliberative governance does not seem to be the deliberative capabilities of individuals, but rather the design of participatory procedures and the participation of individuals. We may question whether the administration can guarantee impartial political spaces that are as inclusive as possible.

Keywords

participatory budgetingdeliberationinclusion
Type
Research Article
Information
European Political Science Review , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , 23 May 2012 , pp. 283 - 302
Copyright
Copyright © European Consortium for Political Research 2012

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