Análisis de la participación ciudadana dentro del proceso de rendición de cuentas de los GADs Parroquiales del cantón Cuenca en el año 2018

Abstract

Participatory democracy is that which aims to involve multiple social sectors in decision making and management of public resources. Therefore, citizen participation and accountability are elements that have been incorporated at the normative level into representative democratic systems, with the ideal of avoiding the concentration of power by those in power. The contribution of this research is to analyze citizen participation linked to the accountability process of the Parish GADs in the canton of Cuenca, for which a qualitative approach was used, through the analysis of multiple cases of rural parishes: Baños and Paccha. The techniques used were: semi-structured interview, documentary analysis and survey. The results reveal that: the accountability process has an informative character and consists of five phases, from which citizens can be involved exclusively in the Citizen Consultation and Public Deliberation; the actors involved in citizen participation are characterized as: active citizens, while the citizens characterized as passive are those who are far from the participation arena; finally, it can be said that the perceptions about citizen participation-accountability vary according to the actors