Who, how, and for what? The participation spaces convened by the Ministry of Social Development of Uruguay

Authors

  • Guillermo Fuentes Instituto de Ciencia Política at the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.
  • Valentina Buschiazzo Instituto de Ciencia Política at the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.
  • Marcelo Castillo Instituto de Ciencia Política at the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32870/espiral.v23i65.4456

Keywords:

Democratic innovation, management instruments, participation, social control, Uruguay

Abstract

In this article are analyzed the participation spaces created by the Ministry of Social Development (mides) of Uruguay between 2005 and 2013, considered management instruments, studying to what measure their function facilitates the meeting of political objectives and looking to determine if they are mechanisms of democratic innovation that introduce new manners of social control. The spaces are analyzed from their positioning in the cube of democracy (Fung, 2006). The results warned of shortcomings in the designs of the spaces, of available resources (human, material, and authoritative), and of criteria to convene, which doubts the transforming potential of the participation spaces.

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Author Biographies

Guillermo Fuentes, Instituto de Ciencia Política at the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

Professor-Researcher at Instituto de Ciencia Política at the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

Valentina Buschiazzo, Instituto de Ciencia Política at the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

Professor-Researcher at Instituto de Ciencia Política at the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

Marcelo Castillo, Instituto de Ciencia Política at the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

Professor-Researcher at Instituto de Ciencia Política at the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

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Published

2015-12-07

How to Cite

Fuentes, G., Buschiazzo, V., & Castillo, M. (2015). Who, how, and for what? The participation spaces convened by the Ministry of Social Development of Uruguay. Espiral Estudios Sobre Estado Y Sociedad (eISSN: 2594-021X), 23(65), 89-121. https://doi.org/10.32870/espiral.v23i65.4456

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 65: Espiral 65 (january-april 2016)

Section

Estado

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