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Oscar Drouillas Carrasco has taught at the University of Chile and is currently director of planning at Capacita S.A. They gratefully acknowledge the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail for funding the research on which this study is based. They thank Rosalind Bresnahan for her support during the review process and the Latin American Perspectives reviewers for their comments on an earlier draft of this article.

Various international assessments have drawn attention to the level of development e-government has reached in Chile during the early 2000s. Despite this, even official reports recognize that there is an e-government deficit in opening spaces for citizen participation. These results coincide with several works which have shown the limits the State of Chile put to citizen participation. This chapter analyzes the participation supply that the websites of Chilean ministries offer the citizenry. We describe the existing interactive applications offered by the websites, and the possibilities they make available for citizens to participate in public policy discussions. Our conclusion is that there is a wide range of available information regarding ministerial management but, on the other; the lack of participatory mechanisms is confirmed. These results can be understood if considering that within the Chilean public administration a managerial predisposition exists, which makes open participation spaces subordinated to prevailing managerial logics.