Paradoxes of participatory democracy: citizen participation, collective action and political influence in a Chilean environmental conflict

This article proposes a critical analysis of the impacts of participatory democracy in public action and collective action. Based on the study of the Barrancones environmental conflict in Chile (2007-2010), the aim is to analyze how transformations and innovations in Chilean environmental law regard...

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Autor principal:	Matilde Spoerer
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Publicado:	Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2014
Materias:	citizen participation political influence environmental conflict participatory democracy social movements Anthropology GN1-890 Latin America. Spanish America F1201-3799
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:81508aa332ab49c682885814bbbbb1062021-12-02T10:31:08ZParadoxes of participatory democracy: citizen participation, collective action and political influence in a Chilean environmental conflict1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.67153https://doaj.org/article/81508aa332ab49c682885814bbbbb1062014-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/67153https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252This article proposes a critical analysis of the impacts of participatory democracy in public action and collective action. Based on the study of the Barrancones environmental conflict in Chile (2007-2010), the aim is to analyze how transformations and innovations in Chilean environmental law regarding citizen participation have had an ambivalent impact. On one hand, institutional citizen participation appears to be an instrument of economic and authoritarian logic to legitimize energy policy by opening dialogue with citizens without this necessarily translating into decision making. On the other, the institutionalization of citizen participation has had an impact on the emergence and forms of expression of collective action. Thus, participation has influenced both the institutions and their actors. The article reveals the paradoxes of participatory democracy and demonstrates the fact that, based on its institutional implementation, direct and inherent impacts of the participatory mechanism can be identified, as well as broader, diffuse and indirect impacts on public and collective action.Matilde SpoererCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américainsarticlecitizen participationpolitical influenceenvironmental conflictparticipatory democracysocial movementsAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2014)
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spellingShingle	citizen participation political influence environmental conflict participatory democracy social movements Anthropology GN1-890 Latin America. Spanish America F1201-3799 Matilde Spoerer Paradoxes of participatory democracy: citizen participation, collective action and political influence in a Chilean environmental conflict
description	This article proposes a critical analysis of the impacts of participatory democracy in public action and collective action. Based on the study of the Barrancones environmental conflict in Chile (2007-2010), the aim is to analyze how transformations and innovations in Chilean environmental law regarding citizen participation have had an ambivalent impact. On one hand, institutional citizen participation appears to be an instrument of economic and authoritarian logic to legitimize energy policy by opening dialogue with citizens without this necessarily translating into decision making. On the other, the institutionalization of citizen participation has had an impact on the emergence and forms of expression of collective action. Thus, participation has influenced both the institutions and their actors. The article reveals the paradoxes of participatory democracy and demonstrates the fact that, based on its institutional implementation, direct and inherent impacts of the participatory mechanism can be identified, as well as broader, diffuse and indirect impacts on public and collective action.
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title	Paradoxes of participatory democracy: citizen participation, collective action and political influence in a Chilean environmental conflict
title_short	Paradoxes of participatory democracy: citizen participation, collective action and political influence in a Chilean environmental conflict
title_full	Paradoxes of participatory democracy: citizen participation, collective action and political influence in a Chilean environmental conflict
title_fullStr	Paradoxes of participatory democracy: citizen participation, collective action and political influence in a Chilean environmental conflict
title_full_unstemmed	Paradoxes of participatory democracy: citizen participation, collective action and political influence in a Chilean environmental conflict
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Paradoxes of participatory democracy: citizen participation, collective action and political influence in a Chilean environmental conflict

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