La gobernabilidad y los métodos de participación ciudadana

Abstract

This paper emphasizes the importance of research on a truly relevant topic, since it is a key element in the development of participatory governance. The research involved a thorough analysis of national regulations for access and application of methods of citizen participation. As a result, the existence of general guidelines allowing access to such methods has been confirmed, since it empowers the Decentralized Municipal Autonomous Government of the canton of El Chaco to create an ordinance providing specific guidelines for their application. The methodology applied responds to the qualitative paradigm, through which an in-depth study is presented that explains one by one the methods of participation. The result is two statements: one about what these methods represent in theory and another that reflects the reality when applied in the canton of El Chaco. The present work, therefore, includes an analysis of real and updated data obtained through municipal decentralized autonomous government officials in the canton of El Chaco. In summary, the line of research contemplated the bibliographic-documentary and field modalities, supported at the exploratory, correlational and explanatory levels. All in all, it determined the creation and presentation of this novel work for the social sciences, whose purpose is to contribute through recommendations to the improvement of the citizen participation system, so that it becomes a real strength in the governance of the Decentralized Autonomous Municipal Government of the canton El Chaco.