TY - JOUR
T1 - Cherry-picking participation
T2 - Explaining the fate of proposals from participatory processes
AU - Font, Joan
AU - Smith, Graham
AU - Galais, Carol
AU - Alarcon, Pau
N1 - Funding Information:
This article has benefited from financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Grant CSO2012-31832). We thank the rest of the research team members for their comments and help on previous versions of the article. Discussants at various conferences and several anonymous reviewers have contributed substantially to improving the article.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 European Consortium for Political Research
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/8
Y1 - 2018/8
N2 - What happens to the proposals generated by participatory processes? One of the key aspects of participatory processes that has been the subject of rare systematic analysis and comparison is the fate of their outputs: their policy proposals. Which specific factors explain whether these proposals are accepted, rejected or transformed by public authorities? In this article contextual and proposal-related factors are identified that are likely to affect the prospect of proposals being implemented. The explanatory power of these factors are tested through multilevel analysis on a diverse set of 571 policy proposals. The findings offer evidence that both contextual and proposal-related variables are important. The design of participatory processes affects the degree of implementation, with participatory budgeting and higher quality processes being particularly effective. Most significant for explaining outcomes are proposal-level, economic and political factors: a proposal's cost, the extent to which it challenges existing policy and the degree of support it has within the municipality all strongly affect the chance of implementation.
AB - What happens to the proposals generated by participatory processes? One of the key aspects of participatory processes that has been the subject of rare systematic analysis and comparison is the fate of their outputs: their policy proposals. Which specific factors explain whether these proposals are accepted, rejected or transformed by public authorities? In this article contextual and proposal-related factors are identified that are likely to affect the prospect of proposals being implemented. The explanatory power of these factors are tested through multilevel analysis on a diverse set of 571 policy proposals. The findings offer evidence that both contextual and proposal-related variables are important. The design of participatory processes affects the degree of implementation, with participatory budgeting and higher quality processes being particularly effective. Most significant for explaining outcomes are proposal-level, economic and political factors: a proposal's cost, the extent to which it challenges existing policy and the degree of support it has within the municipality all strongly affect the chance of implementation.
KW - democratic innovations
KW - local governance
KW - participation
KW - policy implementation
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U2 - 10.1111/1475-6765.12248
DO - 10.1111/1475-6765.12248
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85031492957
VL - 57
SP - 615
EP - 636
JO - European Journal of Political Research
JF - European Journal of Political Research
SN - 0304-4130
IS - 3
ER -