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 to express opinions—and ideally exert influence—regarding political, economic, management or other social decisions. Participato ...
, mechanisms for people to participate in social decisions
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Civic participation, engagement by the citizens in government
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e-participation, 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 due to the performance of an underlying asset
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Capital participation, 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. Conversely ...
, the inverse of inherence: if an ''attribute inheres'' in a subject, then the ''subject participates'' in the attribute
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Participant Media, an American film-production company founded in 2004
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