Do people want more participation?Tensions and conflicts in governance in times of scepticism

  1. Ernesto Ganuza 1
  2. Patricia García-Espín 1
  3. Stefano De Marco 2
  1. 1 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
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    Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02gfc7t72

  2. 2 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Revista:
Revista de estudios políticos

ISSN: 0048-7694

Año de publicación: 2017

Número: 176

Páginas: 253-279

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.18042/CEPC/REP.176.08 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

Otras publicaciones en: Revista de estudios políticos

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Resumen

When ordinary people are asked how they feel about politics, negative terms enter into the conversation. In this work we analyse how people build their relationship with politics, to explore to what extent political representation is challenged by either participatory trends or by expert-based governance in citizens’ mind. To do this, we use focus groups in Spain, where popular distrust of political institutions rose dramatically in the period 1980-2012. We analyse the meanings associated with expert-based, representative, and participatory governance models. In this way, the tensions and contradictions in political preferences for one type of institutional design or another are unveiled.

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Esta investigación se ha realizado en el marco del proyecto de investigación «Stealth democracy: Between participation and professionalization», financiado por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (CSO2012-38942)

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