Participation or Participant may refer to:
Politics
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Participation (decision making)
Citizen Participation or Public Participation in social science refers to different mechanisms for the Public consultation, public to express opinions—and ideally exert influence—regarding political, economic, management or other social dec ...
, mechanisms for people to participate in social decisions
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Civic participation
Civic engagement or civic participation is any individual or group activity addressing issues of public concern. Civic engagement includes communities working together or individuals working alone in both political and non-political actions to ...
, engagement by the citizens in government
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e-participation
Electronic participation (e-participation) is ICT-supported participation in processes involving government and citizens. Processes may concern administration, service delivery, decision making and policy making. E-participation is hence closely ...
, citizen participation in e-government using information and communications technology
Finance
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Participation (ownership)
In finance, "participation" is an ownership interest in a mortgage or other loan. In particular, loan participation is a cooperation of multiple lenders to issue a loan (known as participation loan) to one borrower. This is usually done in order ...
, an ownership interest in a mortgage or other loan
*Participation, the amount of benefit in a
bond plus option
In finance, a Bond+Option is a capital guarantee product that provides an investor with a fixed, predetermined participation to an option. Buying the zero-coupon bond ensures the guarantee of the capital, and the remaining proceeds are used to bu ...
due to the performance of an underlying asset
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Capital participation Capital participation (sometimes also called ''equity participation'' or ''equity interest'') is a form of equity sharing not restricted to housing, in which a company, infrastructure, property or business is shared between different parties. Shareh ...
, ownership of shares in a company or project
Other uses
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Participation (philosophy) In philosophy, participation is the inverse of inherence.
Overview
Accidents are said to ''inhere'' in substance. Substances, in turn, ''participate'' in their accidents. For example, the color red is said to inhere in the red apple. Conversel ...
, the inverse of inherence: if an ''attribute inheres'' in a subject, then the ''subject participates'' in the attribute
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Participant Media
Participant Media, LLC is an American Film industry, film production company founded in 2004 by Jeffrey Skoll, dedicated to entertainment intended to spur social change. The company finances and co-produces film and television content, as well as ...
, an American film-production company founded in 2004
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