Abstract

This paper compares citizenship participation going on in two local planning instruments used in Chilean municipal management: PLADECO from municipal modernization program PROFIM and in participatory budgets. The target is to determine the factors that explain citizenship participation in participatory budgets and whether they are related to assumptions of proximity governance. The outcome is that in PLADECO/ PROFIM a citizenship participation is generated concentrating on consultation and participatory budgets on municipal management implementation and fiscalization. Thd variables that explain citizenship participation in participatory budget are: endogenous origin of the initiative, mediating rol of the municipality; internal cross-cut of the instrument of management, and the actors articulation. These factors are related to the model of proximity governance. Used methodology was qualitative with PLADECO documentary analysis techniques and participatory budgets and interview to key informants in ten cases.