Participatory Democracy as a Structure for Opportunity and Strengthening of Sectoral Notability (original) (raw)

2012

Abstract

Through the example of family farmers’ participation in the Regional Program for Sustainable Development of Rural Areas (PDSTR), this article defends a scientific posture: open up the analysis of the participatory arenas by reintroducing them to the power relationships in policy-making. This research covers three political sociologies: the structures of political opportunity, the advocacy trajectories, and the repertoires of collective action of the participants, and policy analysis. It analyzes the institutionalization of a “hard core” of participants, characterized by their institutional advocacy and their transactional leadership, who format the policy projects from a technical and financial point of view. It also shows the constitution of an “advocacy coalition” that, in the end, defines the policy making and the contents of the PDSTR.

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