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The objective of this paper is to show experiences of political socialization between parents and children in Colombia. It is based on a two-way vision of parenting and political socialization. The political is understood as a dimension of the social that has a double character: conflicting and deliberative. In that sense, political socialization can lead to both perpetuating or transforming conditions and political orientations received. The research is qualitative, with data coming from semi-structured interviews conducted with the mothers and fathers of three families. The results show different experiences through which the families encourage critical thinking and construct political notions related to peace, otherness, participation and social inequality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objetive of this paper is to determine the enabling conditions for exercising participatory budgets in Bogotá. An analysis of the citizen participation regulatory framework in Colombia is introduced in order to understand the existent conditions for the execution of democratic budgets. After, a diagnostic of the main national and international citizen participation programs is completed using Arnstein’s “participatory ladder”, highlighting the failures in promoting citizen participation and in the development of participatory budgets. Finally, the last chapter presents a proposal to synthetize conditions that will enable the development of citizen budgets as well as the lessons learnt from international and national cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]