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Governance, citizen participation, cohesion and share capital in urban and rural areas
Discipline Social Sciences
Academic Group In Consolidation
Year of registration: 2015
Members
Knowledge Generation and Application Lines
1.- Governance.
2.- Citizen participation.
3.- Cohesion and social capital.
Description
1.- The study of governance is a promising and important line of research insofar as social problems are increasingly being addressed by diverse actors beyond state actors, who were usually the only ones in charge of channeling solutions to these contradictions. The SC will analyze the interfaces of interlocution and decision making that contemplate the participation of multiple actors in the public sphere. It is of primary interest to analyze the participation of citizen actors who interact with governments and who, in fact, impact, for example, the public policy process in both urban and rur...
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1.- The study of governance is a promising and important line of research insofar as social problems are increasingly being addressed by diverse actors beyond state actors, who were usually the only ones in charge of channeling solutions to these contradictions. The SC will analyze the interfaces of interlocution and decision making that contemplate the participation of multiple actors in the public sphere. It is of primary interest to analyze the participation of citizen actors who interact with governments and who, in fact, impact, for example, the public policy process in both urban and rural areas.
2.- Citizen participation implies a varied and multiple range of mechanisms through which citizens become involved in the attention of issues and problems in the public sphere. From electoral participation, one of the most common aspects of citizen participation, diverse dimensions of civic commitment (community participation, social capital networks, interpersonal trust, etc.), the appearance of mechanisms of participatory engineering between electoral periods, the creation of public instances of deliberation, the generation of social movements, the establishment of formal and non-formal social coordination mechanisms, among many other options, are objects of study of interest to this academic body, both in the urban and rural spheres.
3.- In the AG, both governance and citizen participation are examined as mechanisms of social cohesion and strengthening of social capital. Above all, we seek to understand the causal relationships that exist between these elements as forms that strengthen diverse mechanisms of social integration in the countryside and the city. The idea is to think towards the future, how governance and citizen participation mechanisms can be strengthened as forms that contribute to improve social coexistence in the diverse forms and alternatives of community.
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