Participation empowers citizens to make decisions from the popular base at the community and municipal level, but must leave administrative management in the hands of public officials elected to perform that function.[4] Popular participation allows community supervision of these officials and establishes derogatory processes applicable to those who fail to comply with the mandates that their election implies. At the provincial, regional or national level, direct participation is possible through recourse to a referendum or plebiscite, which requires an intermediary representative mechanism that channels grassroots initiatives,[1]​ or through the use of lottery.

Participatory democracy initiatives are not aimed at organizing direct democracy but at promoting participation to the highest and broadest possible degree in a well-articulated institutional environment. The solutions of each human group on the mechanism that allows popular initiatives to be channeled can be as diverse as the interests and idiosyncrasies of each people.

The main positive effects that this political system would have if it were put into practice according to its defenders are:

The first exercise of participatory democracy in Mexico was the design of the State Anti-Corruption Policy of Chihuahua,[6]​ in which 10,000 people from the entity were invited by postal mail to participate, selecting forty of them using computer software called StratApp,[6]​ developed by Sortition Foundation.[7]​ The final result was a Public Policy proposal in which the interests of citizens,[8]​ assisted by experts, were heard and deliberated by them. themselves. This first initiative in Mexico was promoted by Félix Romo Gasson and René Moreno Medina,[9]​ head of the Executive Secretariat of the Chihuahua Anti-Corruption System and member of the State Committee for Citizen Participation, respectively.

Participation empowers citizens to make decisions from the popular base at the community and municipal level, but must leave administrative management in the hands of public officials elected to perform that function.[4] Popular participation allows community supervision of these officials and establishes derogatory processes applicable to those who fail to comply with the mandates that their election implies. At the provincial, regional or national level, direct participation is possible through recourse to a referendum or plebiscite, which requires an intermediary representative mechanism that channels grassroots initiatives,[1]​ or through the use of lottery.

Participatory democracy initiatives are not aimed at organizing direct democracy but at promoting participation to the highest and broadest possible degree in a well-articulated institutional environment. The solutions of each human group on the mechanism that allows popular initiatives to be channeled can be as diverse as the interests and idiosyncrasies of each people.

The main positive effects that this political system would have if it were put into practice according to its defenders are:

The first exercise of participatory democracy in Mexico was the design of the State Anti-Corruption Policy of Chihuahua,[6]​ in which 10,000 people from the entity were invited by postal mail to participate, selecting forty of them using computer software called StratApp,[6]​ developed by Sortition Foundation.[7]​ The final result was a Public Policy proposal in which the interests of citizens,[8]​ assisted by experts, were heard and deliberated by them. themselves. This first initiative in Mexico was promoted by Félix Romo Gasson and René Moreno Medina,[9]​ head of the Executive Secretariat of the Chihuahua Anti-Corruption System and member of the State Committee for Citizen Participation, respectively.