title: Participation
text: # Participation
  
  Participation or Participant may refer to:
  
  ## Politics
  
  * Participation (decision making), mechanisms for people to participate in social decisions
  * Civic participation, engagement by the citizens in government
  * e-participation, citizen participation in e-government using information and communications technology
  
  ## Finance
  
  * Participation (ownership), 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
  * Capital participation, ownership of shares in a company or project
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Participation (philosophy), the inverse of inherence: if an attribute inheres in a subject, then the subject participates in the attribute
  * Participant Media, an American film-production company founded in 2004
  