RT Journal Article
T1 Participatory Motivations in Advisory Councils: Exploring Different Reasons to Participate.
A1 Costa-Font, Joan
A1 Pasadas, Sara
A1 Fernández-Martínez, José Luis
K1 Administración local - Opinión pública
K1 Democracia directa
AB The most common participatory institution has been insufficiently analysed: associationally based institutions often exist at any government level (from the neighbourhood to the state), but have received only scant academic attention. This paper analyses these advisory councils (ACs) in Spain, in order to understand why their participants continue to attend the meetings, given the apparently limited attractiveness these institutions have. The analysis, based on results from a survey of participants (n = 569) in a sample of ACs (n = 70), shows that a diverse set of motivations exist (knowledge, influence, recognition and civic duty) and that the relevance of each of them varies within different types of councils and for different groups of participants. The results are relevant to the general discussion as to why people participate in different types of participatory institutions and in discussing how participatory inequalities appear in them.
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36700
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36700
LA eng
NO Joan Font, Sara Pasadas & José Luis Fernández-Martínez (2021): Participatory Motivations in Advisory Councils: Exploring Different Reasons to Participate, Representation, 57(2) DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2019.1643774
NO https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/6007
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026