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02 April 2024

Participatory platforms: a mixed picture after a decade of growth

In less than a decade, digital platforms have become an essential tool of participatory democracy in France. Participatory budgets, citizen consultations, interpellations... They promise to broaden participation, enrich deliberations and give life to a more inclusive democracy, but are they really achieving this?


Participatory democracy was born with the promise of bringing citizens, representatives and public service agents together on common ground, between the silence of abstention and the noise of contestation. It was soon complemented by the rise of digital platforms. At the start of the 2010s, the promise was great: a digital democracy that would update the software used by political institutions to think and act. The following decade saw the unprecedented development of participation...
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Valentin Chaput

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