The legal-administrative organization of citizen participation

a view from the autonomous State

Abstract

In recent years we have witnessed an effort to revitalize the citizens’ participation in the making of decisions in Spain’s autonomies in order to build up a direct and interactive democracy that should make an efficient complement to the representative democracy. Some Autonomic Communities have created specific administrative substructures to set up their own public policy aimed at boosting their citizens’ intervention in the process of public decisionmaking. This public autonomic policy needs to analize the kind of administrative intervention which is being developed to reach this new political culture.