E-participation platforms create spaces and opportunities for participation and collaboration between governments and citizens. This paper aims to investigate the role of power on formal e-participation platforms and digital spaces that are controlled by the governments. Although those types of platforms have been increasing in numerous countries, they have been criticised as often leading to a lack of or decrease in citizen engagement. We propose a relational view that examines how power is related to the use of resources in practice, that is, to resourcing. To explore this issue, we examine citizens' participation on three urban mobility platforms in three major Brazilian cities. Our study makes two main contributions. First, we contribute to the literature on e-participation by explaining how a relational view of power helps to understand the nature and consequences of citizen participation in public policy-making. Second, we integrate the concept of resourcing as both a source and constitutive element of relational power. We propose a process-based model of resourcing as power that opens the black box of resourcing through the identification of three distinct phases in time: resourcing IN, resourcing WITHIN and resourcing OUT.

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影响公共决策的公民：资源作为电子参与平台中关系权力的来源

电子参与平台为政府和公民之间的参与和合作创造了空间和机会。本文旨在研究权力在正式电子参与平台上的作用和由政府控制的数字空间。尽管这些类型的平台在许多国家都在增加，但它们被批评为经常导致公民参与不足或减少。我们提出了一种关系观点，该观点检验了权力与实践中的资源使用（即资源配置）之间的关系。为了探讨这个问题，我们研究了巴西三个主要城市的公民对三个城市交通平台的参与。我们的研究有两个主要贡献。首先，我们通过解释权力的关系观如何有助于理解公民参与公共决策的性质和后果，为电子参与的文献做出贡献。其次，我们将资源的概念整合为关系权力的来源和构成要素。资源输入、资源内部和资源输出。