Discourse As Determinant Of The Effectiveness Of Social Participation: Beyond Institutional Design And Context

Research on participatory institutions consolidates institutional design and context as determining factors for the outputs and outcomes of participatory processes in the political sphere. This theoretical discussion adds the perspective of the agents action, through discourse, to the traditional rationalist and sociological approaches as another determinant in the search for the effectiveness of participatory institutions. Finally, the Critical Discourse Analysis method is deepened as a possible tool for the application of the Discursive Neoinstitutionalist approach. A series of categories and subcategories has been structured that enable an analysis of the determinants of context, institutional design and discourse to reach four perspectives of effectiveness of participatory institutions. At last, some possible research fields relating determinants and effectiveness are presented. With the results presented, it is expected that a promising research agenda will be possible when considering the action of agents through discourse in the scope of participatory institutions.