Democratization of citizen participation in local public management. An opportunity sor institutional governance

Abstract

The research started with the purpose of interpreting the process of democratization of citizen participation in local public management, starting from a discourse that establishes an opportunity for institutional governance, supported by the following guidelines: Understand the democratization of citizen participation as part of the co-responsibility of local public management, and contextualize citizen participation from an institutional governance position. The research is analytical-interpretive, inductive and with a documentary review strategy; Theory saturation is used from the technique of constant comparison, facilitating triangulation between the theories consulted and the criteria of the researchers, and the narrative of the interviewees (key informants), which allowed the proposal of a new construct from this research, giving in turn an opportunity for a new praxis within the public administration, especially local governance. The research is descriptive thanks to the characteristics of what citizen participation means and its scope of application; The Grounded Theory is proposed as an analysis strategy, allowing to sustain the process of categorization that gives rise to the three aspects for good practice within local public management: Build citizenship by making the entire community responsible for common affairs; promote citizen participation in the process of decentralization and integral transformation of the political structure of the city, and institutional governance facilitates a transversal reading of social needs.