Joan Font
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3780107 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joan Font |
| NOMBRES | Joan |
| APELLIDO | Font |
| FIRMA | FONT J |
| AFILIACIONES | Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2177-8538 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 299 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The effect of ruling party change and party ideology on participatory budgeting stability
Participatory Budgeting (PB) has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for global diffusion. However, its ability to endure over time and become fully institutionalized remains more limited. This study addresses one of the most frequently cited explanations for PB’s instability: changes in the ruling party. Contrary to prevailing assumptions, we argue that it is not party turnover per se that leads to the discontinuation of PB, but rather the ideolo…
(Slightly) different objectives, but similar results
Participatory Institutions and Political Ideologies
Most of the research about participatory institutions has neglected the analysis of the role played by ideological preferences in their development. Do different political ideologies of governing parties develop different participatory processes? Our starting point is that diverse views on the core values of democracy should lead to different positions concerning the role and expected benefits of citizen participation. This article discusses two …
Ciudadanía, políticos y expertos en la toma de decisiones políticas la percepción de las cualidades de los actores políticos importan
Qué factores explican que la ciudadanía prefiera políticos, ciudadanos o expertos en la toma de decisiones políticas? Este artículo demuestra que la falta de apoyo al sistema político desempeña un papel relevante. A su vez, encontramos que la valoración que hace la ciudadanía sobre las cualidades morales y técnicas de los actores tradicionales en democracia (élite política y ciudadanía) ayuda a perfilar mejor la naturaleza de sus preferencias. A …
La abstención en las grandes ciudades, Madrid y Barcelona
El artículo analiza la evolución de la participación electoral en las áreas \nmetropolitanas de Madrid y Barcelona. Tras la descripción de los cambios y la distribución \nlocal de la abstención se intentan apuntar algunas hipótesis explicativas a partir de técnicas \nde regresión múltiple. Se utilizan diversas variables agregadas (nivel de estudios, clase \nsocial, etc..) entre las que el efecto desmovilizador del paro y de la inmigración recient…
What drives process preferences? The role of perceived qualities of policymakers and party preferences
Expertise and Participatory Governance
The need for democratic control of the application of expert knowledge is a common refrain in debates on the democratization of policy making. However, there has been relatively little attention empirically to how expert knowledge is integrated into local participatory processes. This paper analyzes how the assessments of local officers and external consultants are incorporated in a diversity of local participatory processes in Spain between 2007…
The Closer, the Better? Comparing Advisory Councils at Different Government Levels
Advisory councils exist at diverse government levels, making them especially appropriate to address the discussion about scaling up participatory institutions, by comparing their differences across different government levels. We analyze the characteristics of advisory councils in Spain, where they are quite similar at the national, regional, and local levels, allowing a controlled comparison of their functioning and results. Results show similar…
Participatory Motivations in Advisory Councils
The most common participatory institution has been insufficiently analysed: associationally based institutions often exist at any government level (from the neighbourhood to the state), but have received only scant academic attention. This paper analyses these advisory councils (ACs) in Spain, in order to understand why their participants continue to attend the meetings, given the apparently limited attractiveness these institutions have. The ana…
Testing the input‐process‐output model of public participation
The characteristics of participatory institutions can be articulated in three main dimensions: input, process and output. The common assumption is that a dependency relationship exists, with process serving as a mediator between input and output. This paper puts the model to a rare empirical test drawing on a unique dataset of 70 Spanish advisory councils. Through a combination of exploratory factor and path analyses, we analyse the dimensionalit…
Experts in Government
Technocratic governments and similar systems that give more voice to experts in the decision-making process are one of the potential alternatives to traditional representative party government. These alternatives have become increasingly popular, especially in countries where strong political disaffection and previous favourable pro-expert attitudes exist simultaneously. The Spanish case is one of these settings, with the emergence of a political…
The effects of economic crises on participatory democracy
This paper examines the impact of economic conditions on participatory democracy. It analyses whether economic crises affect the types of proposals that emerge from local participatory processes and the fate of these proposals. Focusing on more than 500 proposals that emerged from 34 participatory processes in Spain between 2007 and 2011, our study covers a period which straddles the emergence of severe economic problems resulting from the global…
The devil is in the detail
Recent research on citizen process preferences has highlighted three different models of decision making: representation, participation and stealth democracy. However, the meanings of the two alternatives to the prevailing representative model have not been fully explored. What do citizens have in mind when distinguishing between participatory and stealth models of democracy? Using survey data from several Western European countries, the article …
Cherry‐picking participation
What happens to the proposals generated by participatory processes? One of the key aspects of participatory processes that has been the subject of rare systematic analysis and comparison is the fate of their outputs: their policy proposals. Which specific factors explain whether these proposals are accepted, rejected or transformed by public authorities? In this article contextual and proposal‐related factors are identified that are likely to aff…
Nuevos mecanismos participativos
No podemos entender quiénes somos sin entender de dónde venimos. Ocurre con las personas pero también con las políticas locales de participación ciudadana. Por ello, el objetivo de esta breve reflexión será doble. En primer lugar, argumentaremos que las nuevas políticas de participación desarrolladas por los ayuntamientos españoles elegidos en las elecciones municipales de 2015 se han movido por sendas considerablemente diversas. En segundo lugar…
Tracing the Impact of Proposals from Participatory Processes
Our understanding of participatory processes is increasing rapidly. However, one area that has received sparse attention is the impact of the proposals from participatory processes on the policy and practice of public administrations. Which proposals are converted into actual policy and practice; which are modified or simply ignored? The field lacks a systematic understanding of the fate of proposals. This paper reflects on the methodological str…
Las encuestas en las administraciones públicas españolas
Qué tipo de encuestas producen las administraciones públicas? ¿Quién encarga, usa y analiza dichos estudios? ¿Cuáles son sus características metodológicas y para qué políticas se utilizan? ¿El contenido de los estudios encargados por las administraciones públicas de los diferentes niveles territoriales difieren sustancialmente? Carecemos de información empírica sistemática para responder a estas preguntas en el caso español. Utilizamos tres fuent…
Participation, Representation and Expertise
In this article, it is shown that citizen process preferences are complex and include several dimensions. The argument relies on data from a representative sample of Spanish citizens (N = 2,450) to assess these dimensions. Using confirmatory factor analysis as well as Mokken analysis, it is shown that citizen process preferences capture support for three different models: participatory, representative and expert-based. The relationships between t…
Where Are the Boundaries of Deliberation and Participation? A Transatlantic Debate
This article uses recent empirical results from a comparative Southern European study to show that the participatory practices commonly developed in this area are quite different from some of the common ideas related to deliberation in the English-speaking world. One of the main differences lies in the characteristics of the promoters, since most of them are top-down experiences organized by public authorities. The other main difference lies in t…
Surveying Ethnic Minorities and Immigrant Populations
What challenges do researchers face when surveying immigrant populations and ethnic minorities? What are the best ways to ensure that general population surveys adequately represent minority groups? The first book to systematically address these questions, this volume analyzes more than a dozen surveys conducted in eight Western countries on topics ranging from politics to health. These case studies-which include local and national surveys with v…
Participatory Democratic Innovations in Europe
Surveying Ethnic Minorities and Immigrant Populations
International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in EuropeThe IMISCOE Research Network unites researchers from some 30 institutes specialising in studies of international migration, integration and social cohesion in Europe.What began in 2004 as a Network of Excellence sponsored by the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission became, as of April 2009, an independent self-funding endeavour.IMISCOE promotes integrated, multidisc…
Personal Experience and the Evaluation of Participatory Instruments in Spanish Cities
The article examines the role that personal experience with participatory mechanisms plays in the explanation of the perceived efficacy of these instruments. The first part demonstrates that , contrary to most expectations, citizens who have direct experience with these processes have a more negative evaluation of their performance. Where does this frustration effect come from? The second part analyzes three potential explanations of why this pat…
La democracia local
Ciudadanos, asociaciones y participación en España
Participation, Representation and Expertise
In this article, it is shown that citizen process preferences are complex and include several dimensions. The argument relies on data from a representative sample of Spanish citizens (N = 2,450) to assess these dimensions. Using confirmatory factor analysis as well as Mokken analysis, it is shown that citizen process preferences capture support for three different models: participatory, representative and expert-based. The relationships between t…
Cherry‐picking participation
What happens to the proposals generated by participatory processes? One of the key aspects of participatory processes that has been the subject of rare systematic analysis and comparison is the fate of their outputs: their policy proposals. Which specific factors explain whether these proposals are accepted, rejected or transformed by public authorities? In this article contextual and proposal‐related factors are identified that are likely to aff…
Procedural legitimacy and political trust
During the past few years, new mechanisms of citizen participation in decision making have been introduced into local governance frameworks in many countries around the world. One of the basic objectives of these mechanisms is to bridge the gap between citizens and politicians or, in other words, to build political trust. In Spain, citizen juries are one of the main manifestations of this trend towards local democratic innovation. Their contribut…
The devil is in the detail
Recent research on citizen process preferences has highlighted three different models of decision making: representation, participation and stealth democracy. However, the meanings of the two alternatives to the prevailing representative model have not been fully explored. What do citizens have in mind when distinguishing between participatory and stealth models of democracy? Using survey data from several Western European countries, the article …
Experts in Government
Technocratic governments and similar systems that give more voice to experts in the decision-making process are one of the potential alternatives to traditional representative party government. These alternatives have become increasingly popular, especially in countries where strong political disaffection and previous favourable pro-expert attitudes exist simultaneously. The Spanish case is one of these settings, with the emergence of a political…
Ciudadanía, políticos y expertos en la toma de decisiones políticas la percepción de las cualidades de los actores políticos importan
Qué factores explican que la ciudadanía prefiera políticos, ciudadanos o expertos en la toma de decisiones políticas? Este artículo demuestra que la falta de apoyo al sistema político desempeña un papel relevante. A su vez, encontramos que la valoración que hace la ciudadanía sobre las cualidades morales y técnicas de los actores tradicionales en democracia (élite política y ciudadanía) ayuda a perfilar mejor la naturaleza de sus preferencias. A …
Participatory Motivations in Advisory Councils
The most common participatory institution has been insufficiently analysed: associationally based institutions often exist at any government level (from the neighbourhood to the state), but have received only scant academic attention. This paper analyses these advisory councils (ACs) in Spain, in order to understand why their participants continue to attend the meetings, given the apparently limited attractiveness these institutions have. The ana…
Personal Experience and the Evaluation of Participatory Instruments in Spanish Cities
The article examines the role that personal experience with participatory mechanisms plays in the explanation of the perceived efficacy of these instruments. The first part demonstrates that , contrary to most expectations, citizens who have direct experience with these processes have a more negative evaluation of their performance. Where does this frustration effect come from? The second part analyzes three potential explanations of why this pat…
Participatory Institutions and Political Ideologies
Most of the research about participatory institutions has neglected the analysis of the role played by ideological preferences in their development. Do different political ideologies of governing parties develop different participatory processes? Our starting point is that diverse views on the core values of democracy should lead to different positions concerning the role and expected benefits of citizen participation. This article discusses two …
Testing the input‐process‐output model of public participation
The characteristics of participatory institutions can be articulated in three main dimensions: input, process and output. The common assumption is that a dependency relationship exists, with process serving as a mediator between input and output. This paper puts the model to a rare empirical test drawing on a unique dataset of 70 Spanish advisory councils. Through a combination of exploratory factor and path analyses, we analyse the dimensionalit…
Retos metodológicos para el estudio cuantitativo de las experiencias participativas locales. Combinación de métodos y bases de datos
En este artículo analizamos los efectos de diferentes estrategias para la recolección de datos en el estudio de las experiencias participativas andaluzas. Examinamos para ello las diferencias y similitudes entre los datos recogidos mediante diferentes métodos, así como las implicaciones para la fiabilidad de los datos. Para ello, hemos utilizado dos procedimientos paralelos. En primer lugar, una encuesta a municipios y la minería de datos en Inte…
The Qualities of Local Participation
Previous research into local participation (often based on in-depth studies of the most successful examples of the phenomenon) has highlighted its qualities and potential. In this article we adopt a different strategy, in the first part building an explanatory analysis of the procedural qualities of local participation based on a mapping of local processes. This mapping — comprising 103 experiences drawn from Catalonia (Spain) — allows us to make…
The Closer, the Better? Comparing Advisory Councils at Different Government Levels
Advisory councils exist at diverse government levels, making them especially appropriate to address the discussion about scaling up participatory institutions, by comparing their differences across different government levels. We analyze the characteristics of advisory councils in Spain, where they are quite similar at the national, regional, and local levels, allowing a controlled comparison of their functioning and results. Results show similar…
Dangerous Coalitions (for Small Parties)
The goal of the paper is to test the electoral effects of Spanish government at the local and regional level. The analysis reveals several different conclusions regarding incumbency and government composition. First, there is no universal trend in favour of incumbency or government erosion. Instead, participation in government offers political parties an opportunity to become better known and to demonstrate their political capabilities. Second, t…
The effects of economic crises on participatory democracy
This paper examines the impact of economic conditions on participatory democracy. It analyses whether economic crises affect the types of proposals that emerge from local participatory processes and the fate of these proposals. Focusing on more than 500 proposals that emerged from 34 participatory processes in Spain between 2007 and 2011, our study covers a period which straddles the emergence of severe economic problems resulting from the global…
The Electoral Impact of Direct-Democratic Practices
In recent years there has been a growing interest in the integration of mechanisms of direct citizen participation in the institutional structure of representative democracy, particularly at the local level. This essay examines the electoral impact of mechanisms of direct citizen participation. Although it is often considered that participatory schemes can be a means to achieve electoral success in the hands of politicians seeking re-election, qu…
(Slightly) different objectives, but similar results
Las encuestas en las administraciones públicas españolas
Qué tipo de encuestas producen las administraciones públicas? ¿Quién encarga, usa y analiza dichos estudios? ¿Cuáles son sus características metodológicas y para qué políticas se utilizan? ¿El contenido de los estudios encargados por las administraciones públicas de los diferentes niveles territoriales difieren sustancialmente? Carecemos de información empírica sistemática para responder a estas preguntas en el caso español. Utilizamos tres fuent…
Presentación. Desafíos metodológicos en la investigación de la participación
Participation is a well-established subject in the social sciences. Individual participation, non-governmental organizations, interest groups, and social movements have all been important fields of research for years, at least among sociologists and political scientists. Each of these areas has also developed its own methodological traditions and debates, permitting new researchers entering the field to have a clear idea of the choices offered th…
El pez grande se come al chico las consecuencias electorales de gobernar en las CC.AA. y municipios españoles
El artículo trata de verificar si el hecho de gobernar es electoralmente rentable o si, por el contrario, desgasta a los partidos gobernantes. El universo de análisis son las CC. AA. y los principales municipios españoles desde la recuperación de la democracia hasta la actualidad. El trabajo tiene tres conclusiones principales. En primer lugar, gobernar no constituye claramente ni una ventaja ni un problema para el titular del ejecutivo, pero sí …
Participación política versus participación electoral
Comunicación presentada al III Congreso de Sociologia. Area de Ciencia Política. \nDonostia 1989.
The autonomous elections of November 1995 in Catalonia
Political change and socioeconomic policies in Central America
During the 1980s, two fields of analysis received most attention from political scientists. In Western Europe the crisis of the Keynesian welfare state gave rise to a vast academic and political debate. The discussion developed in a period of political stability. In Latin America the collapse of the authoritarian regimes gave the debates on transitions to democracy a privileged place in the academic and political agenda. Such controversies were h…
Actores y cambio político en Centroamérica
L’article té com a objectiu desenvolupar algunes hipòtesis sobre la naturalesa i el tipus de relació, en la recent política centreamericana, entre les condicions estructurals i dinàmiques dels processos de canvi i les pautes d’incidència/adaptació a aquests per part dels actors polítics dels països implicats. En concret, s’argumenta per als casos de Guatemala i Nicaragua l’existència d’un profund impacte mutu, a través del qual les estratègies de…
Las bases sociales y politicas del apoyo a la Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca
El debate en torno a las causas de los apoyos recibidos por los movimientos revolucionarios centroamericanos ha dado lugar a una extensa producción que, a su vez, ha contribuido a enriquecer la discusión comparativa sobre las causas de los procesos revolucionarios. Las causas de las revueltas centroamericanas, exitosas o no en sus objetivos, han sido un tema que cualquier monografía sobre la zona abordaba de manera más o menos explícita. Por ello…
El pez grande se come al chico las consecuencias electorales de gobernar en las CC.AA. y municipios españoles
El artículo trata de verificar si el hecho de gobernar es electoralmente rentable o si, por el contrario, desgasta a los partidos gobernantes. El universo de análisis son las CC. AA. y los principales municipios españoles desde la recuperación de la democracia hasta la actualidad. El trabajo tiene tres conclusiones principales. En primer lugar, gobernar no constituye claramente ni una ventaja ni un problema para el titular del ejecutivo, pero sí …
L'abstenció en les eleccions al Parlament de Catalunya
Dangerous Coalitions (for Small Parties)
The goal of the paper is to test the electoral effects of Spanish government at the local and regional level. The analysis reveals several different conclusions regarding incumbency and government composition. First, there is no universal trend in favour of incumbency or government erosion. Instead, participation in government offers political parties an opportunity to become better known and to demonstrate their political capabilities. Second, t…
Procedural legitimacy and political trust
During the past few years, new mechanisms of citizen participation in decision making have been introduced into local governance frameworks in many countries around the world. One of the basic objectives of these mechanisms is to bridge the gap between citizens and politicians or, in other words, to build political trust. In Spain, citizen juries are one of the main manifestations of this trend towards local democratic innovation. Their contribut…
The Electoral Impact of Direct-Democratic Practices
In recent years there has been a growing interest in the integration of mechanisms of direct citizen participation in the institutional structure of representative democracy, particularly at the local level. This essay examines the electoral impact of mechanisms of direct citizen participation. Although it is often considered that participatory schemes can be a means to achieve electoral success in the hands of politicians seeking re-election, qu…
The Qualities of Local Participation
Previous research into local participation (often based on in-depth studies of the most successful examples of the phenomenon) has highlighted its qualities and potential. In this article we adopt a different strategy, in the first part building an explanatory analysis of the procedural qualities of local participation based on a mapping of local processes. This mapping — comprising 103 experiences drawn from Catalonia (Spain) — allows us to make…
Presentación. Desafíos metodológicos en la investigación de la participación
Participation is a well-established subject in the social sciences. Individual participation, non-governmental organizations, interest groups, and social movements have all been important fields of research for years, at least among sociologists and political scientists. Each of these areas has also developed its own methodological traditions and debates, permitting new researchers entering the field to have a clear idea of the choices offered th…
Retos metodológicos para el estudio cuantitativo de las experiencias participativas locales. Combinación de métodos y bases de datos
En este artículo analizamos los efectos de diferentes estrategias para la recolección de datos en el estudio de las experiencias participativas andaluzas. Examinamos para ello las diferencias y similitudes entre los datos recogidos mediante diferentes métodos, así como las implicaciones para la fiabilidad de los datos. Para ello, hemos utilizado dos procedimientos paralelos. En primer lugar, una encuesta a municipios y la minería de datos en Inte…
Surveying Ethnic Minorities and Immigrant Populations
What challenges do researchers face when surveying immigrant populations and ethnic minorities? What are the best ways to ensure that general population surveys adequately represent minority groups? The first book to systematically address these questions, this volume analyzes more than a dozen surveys conducted in eight Western countries on topics ranging from politics to health. These case studies-which include local and national surveys with v…
Participatory Democratic Innovations in Europe
Surveying Ethnic Minorities and Immigrant Populations
International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in EuropeThe IMISCOE Research Network unites researchers from some 30 institutes specialising in studies of international migration, integration and social cohesion in Europe.What began in 2004 as a Network of Excellence sponsored by the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission became, as of April 2009, an independent self-funding endeavour.IMISCOE promotes integrated, multidisc…
Personal Experience and the Evaluation of Participatory Instruments in Spanish Cities
The article examines the role that personal experience with participatory mechanisms plays in the explanation of the perceived efficacy of these instruments. The first part demonstrates that , contrary to most expectations, citizens who have direct experience with these processes have a more negative evaluation of their performance. Where does this frustration effect come from? The second part analyzes three potential explanations of why this pat…
Where Are the Boundaries of Deliberation and Participation? A Transatlantic Debate
This article uses recent empirical results from a comparative Southern European study to show that the participatory practices commonly developed in this area are quite different from some of the common ideas related to deliberation in the English-speaking world. One of the main differences lies in the characteristics of the promoters, since most of them are top-down experiences organized by public authorities. The other main difference lies in t…
Las encuestas en las administraciones públicas españolas
Qué tipo de encuestas producen las administraciones públicas? ¿Quién encarga, usa y analiza dichos estudios? ¿Cuáles son sus características metodológicas y para qué políticas se utilizan? ¿El contenido de los estudios encargados por las administraciones públicas de los diferentes niveles territoriales difieren sustancialmente? Carecemos de información empírica sistemática para responder a estas preguntas en el caso español. Utilizamos tres fuent…
Participation, Representation and Expertise
In this article, it is shown that citizen process preferences are complex and include several dimensions. The argument relies on data from a representative sample of Spanish citizens (N = 2,450) to assess these dimensions. Using confirmatory factor analysis as well as Mokken analysis, it is shown that citizen process preferences capture support for three different models: participatory, representative and expert-based. The relationships between t…
Tracing the Impact of Proposals from Participatory Processes
Our understanding of participatory processes is increasing rapidly. However, one area that has received sparse attention is the impact of the proposals from participatory processes on the policy and practice of public administrations. Which proposals are converted into actual policy and practice; which are modified or simply ignored? The field lacks a systematic understanding of the fate of proposals. This paper reflects on the methodological str…
Nuevos mecanismos participativos
No podemos entender quiénes somos sin entender de dónde venimos. Ocurre con las personas pero también con las políticas locales de participación ciudadana. Por ello, el objetivo de esta breve reflexión será doble. En primer lugar, argumentaremos que las nuevas políticas de participación desarrolladas por los ayuntamientos españoles elegidos en las elecciones municipales de 2015 se han movido por sendas considerablemente diversas. En segundo lugar…
The devil is in the detail
Recent research on citizen process preferences has highlighted three different models of decision making: representation, participation and stealth democracy. However, the meanings of the two alternatives to the prevailing representative model have not been fully explored. What do citizens have in mind when distinguishing between participatory and stealth models of democracy? Using survey data from several Western European countries, the article …
Cherry‐picking participation
What happens to the proposals generated by participatory processes? One of the key aspects of participatory processes that has been the subject of rare systematic analysis and comparison is the fate of their outputs: their policy proposals. Which specific factors explain whether these proposals are accepted, rejected or transformed by public authorities? In this article contextual and proposal‐related factors are identified that are likely to aff…
The effects of economic crises on participatory democracy
This paper examines the impact of economic conditions on participatory democracy. It analyses whether economic crises affect the types of proposals that emerge from local participatory processes and the fate of these proposals. Focusing on more than 500 proposals that emerged from 34 participatory processes in Spain between 2007 and 2011, our study covers a period which straddles the emergence of severe economic problems resulting from the global…
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