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In many democracies, disillusionment with government handling of issues has led to greater use of participation processes in public decision making. In this chapter, we review key concepts in participatory democracy, describe some of the main participatory instruments and identify the tasks included in them, as a basis for later inclusion in a web-based architecture for participation support.
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The work of the authors has been supported by grants from the Spanish Ministry of Science, the E-Democracia CM programme and the ESF-Cost ADT programme. We are grateful to discussions with Simon French, Jesús Ríos, César Alfaro and Javier Gómez.
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Lavín, J.M., Insua, D.R. (2010). Participatory Processes and Instruments. In: Rios Insua, D., French, S. (eds) e-Democracy . Advances in Group Decision and Negotiation, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9045-4_3
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