How and why to synthesize a debate that remains open? The option of this work is to emphasis the step that I observ in the set of the analytical and understanding efforts of the experiences: the critical vision that goes from the commemoration of the participation to the demand of its qualification; that is to say, to deepen the critical reading of the conditions and limits of participatory processes that spread and institutionalize, specially, in the local scope. For the attainment of this goal I adopt the model of deliberative democracy, like criterion to systematize the identified "problems" in our discussions, mean, the present tensions in the diverse worked experiences of participation: autonomy/colonization; norm/application context; information/understanding; problematización/organization; proposal/institutional design; manager / citizen.