Resumen

ALVAREZ ITRIAGO, Rosangel M. Participación ciudadana en la creación del Distrito Capital durante el proceso constituyente venezolano de 1999. CDC [online]. 2010, vol.27, n.75, pp.23-50. ISSN 1012-2508.

Participation being a crosscutting theme of the current socio-political debate, our aim was to examine the impact of organizational forms, demands and strategies used by socio-political actors so that their proposals on the establishment of the Capital District (CD) were incorporated in the constitution passed by the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) of 1999. Although citizen proposals were discussed at the NCA, the way the CD was registered in the Constitution and the Special Law distanced itself from its originally planned concept, organization and objectives. That outcome of citizen participation is explained with reference to the present dilemma between participation-representation, technical and political issues, and other factors that affect the participation process.

Palabras clave : Citizen participation; Constituent process; Capital District; Venezuela.