MEANING
Involving or allowing people to take an active part in an activity or decision.
Use it for
describing research involving affected communities; distinguishing involvement from passive observation; examining how people contribute to decisions that concern themSeparates active involvement from merely observing a process or receiving its results. Academic functions: Research / Methodology, Theory / Conceptual Language.
Words that belong together
- participatory research
- participatory governance
- participatory decision-making
On the page
The participatory design invited residents to help define the research questions rather than only answer them.
The analysis asks whether the participatory process changed decisions or merely increased attendance.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- participatory
Usage notes
Adjective: participatory research, participatory decision-making. Participative is a related established alternative, not a second entry in this task. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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