Introduction The Politics of Participation in Latin America: New Actors and Institutions

Rich, Jessica A. J.; Mayka, Lindsay; Montero, Alfred P.

doi:10.1017/lap.2018.74

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“…Citizen participation in the elaboration and implementation of communication policies "implies the intervention of the public in the production and administration of communication systems" (UNESCO, 1977: 4) and includes new actors and institutions (Rich et al, 2019). In particular, the participation of civil society in the state affects the quality of state institutions (Ippolito-O'Donnell, 2013).…”

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Participation to avoid elite capture in communication policies

Linares,

Segura

2023

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How did face the participatory state institutions of communication policies created in Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico and Uruguay the capture by political and economic elites? This article answers this question through a comparative approach. The research addresses regulation and its implementation based on the methodological guide provided by the concept of citizen participation. Diversity, implementation, incidence, autonomy and transparency are the axes that organized the analysis that includes qualitative and quantitative information built from documents, specific bibliography and interviews. It concludes that participatory bodies occasionally limited the capture of policies or generated valuable experiences in that search, at least temporarily. However, these entities failed to prevent the capture of the policies by economic and political elites. Therefore, they did not reach enough influence to change the communication system. Despite this, it may list a set of unintended and difficult-to-measure positive results that show the enrichment of democratic and civic practices.

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Participation to avoid elite capture in communication policies

Linares,

Segura

2023

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“…Additional work is needed to understand how allies inside the state shape the influence of right-wing groups. As the 2019 special issue of this journal on the "politics of participation in Latin America" (Rich et al 2019) emphasizes, allies within the bureaucracy and judiciary might amplify the policy impact of civil society groups. These allies may support the aims of the grassroots right, as seen in Corredor's analysis of the peace process in Colombia.…”

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Introduction The Grassroots Right in Latin America: Patterns, Causes, and Consequences

Mayka¹,

Smith²

2021

Lat Am Polit Soc

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A fter a decade of leftist governments, the Latin American right is resurgent.While rightist and center-rightist politicians and parties have come to power in a number of countries, the shift is most significant at the grassroots. This special section of Latin American Politics and Society is dedicated to understanding the "grassroots right": the diverse citizens, civil society associations, and religious groups engaged in activism to support right-wing issues. Their causes range from restricting abortion, affirmative action, and LGBTQ+ rights to expanding gun rights and violently repressing crime to supporting free markets and opposing redistribution.We know too little about the grassroots right in contemporary Latin America. Recent work on civil society in the region has focused mostly on left-leaning groups that mobilize for social and economic rights. For instance, a rich literature has developed to study feminist movements (

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“…Efforts to systematize the findings are complicated by the myriad forms that participatory institutions take in practice. There is a large and growing body of literature examining participatory institutions in developing countries (Grillos 2017; Mayka 2019; Rich, Mayka, and Montero 2019; Touchton, Sugiyama, and Wampler 2017; Touchton & Wampler 2014; Wampler 2004). However, the literatures on participatory institutions and local collective action in developing countries have only recently begun to engage directly with political theory on deliberative democracy (Heller and Rao 2015).…”

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Participation Improves Collective Decisions (When It Involves Deliberation): Experimental Evidence From Kenya

Grillos

2021

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Citizen participation in decision making has been widely lauded as a method for improving societal outcomes. Deliberative discussion, in particular, is believed to be more transformative than a mere aggregation of individual preferences, leading to more socially optimal decision making and behavior. I report the results from a laboratory experiment with 570 subjects in Nairobi, directly testing the effect of participation in deliberative group decision making on collective outcomes. Participants engage in a group task to earn compensation toward a shared group fund. Randomly assigned treatments vary according to whether decision making over the task to be completed involves: (1) external assignment; (2) non-deliberative majority voting; or (3) consensus through deliberative discussion. I find that deliberation improves collective decision making. Deliberation is also associated with changes in preferences, greater agreement with decision outcomes, and greater perceived fairness. Evidence for behavior change is weaker, but there is some support for further research into the relationship between preference change and behavior change.

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Introduction The Politics of Participation in Latin America: New Actors and Institutions

Cited by 27 publications

References 114 publications

Participation to avoid elite capture in communication policies

Participation to avoid elite capture in communication policies

Introduction The Grassroots Right in Latin America: Patterns, Causes, and Consequences

Participation Improves Collective Decisions (When It Involves Deliberation): Experimental Evidence From Kenya

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