Arnau Monterde

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the case of Decidim Barcelona, the online participatory-democracy platform launched by the City Council of Barcelona in which proposals can be discussed with an interface that combines threaded discussions and comment alignment with the proposal.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an in-depth analysis of the case study of the Barcelona Climate Plan and find that participants did not share a clear understanding of what co-production was about, which can endanger the fulfilment of the goals.

TL;DR: Decidim Barcelona, the online participatory-democracy platform launched by the City Council of Barcelona, is focused on, in which proposals can be discussed with an interface that combines threaded discussions and comment alignment with the proposal, revealing that comments marked as negatively aligned with the proposed proposal helped to promote deliberative decision making.