This article analyzes decentralization as a contributing factor in the expansion and stabilization of spaces and mechanisms for citizen participation such as the participatory budget. An approximation is made from the analysis of public policies, understanding decentralization and participation as institutional problems. It is used as a method of causal inference, the follow-up of processes of verification of the theory to trace and analyze the causal mechanism that links decentralization as a process that contributed to the expansion and stabilization of citizen participation mechanisms. The policy instruments based on the state resources proposed in the NATO typology (Hood 2007) are used, understood as resources of nodality (information), authority, treasure and organization taking into account that the instruments are constituted as empirical observations of the causal mechanism that links the causal factor and the result. To select the case study, the Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) technique was used for evidence of insufficient but necessary conditions to explain a result.
Keywords:
policy instruments, participatory budget, causal mechanism, process monitoring, Peru
Sotelo, G. (2017). The Decentralization as an explanatory factor for the expansion and stabilization of citizen participation mechanisms: Case study of the participatory budget in the district of San Juan de Lurigancho, Peru (2004-2010). Journal Studies of Public Policy, 3(2), 131–139. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-6296.2017.47752
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