Revista Latina de Comunicación Social # 071 – Pages 1.261 to 1.279 [Funded] [Research] | DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-2016-1145en | ISSN 1138-5820 | Year 2016 websites of Castile y León, the largest autonomous community of Spain. The chosen technique to carry out this study is content analysis and direct observation. The analysis focuses on 19 variables that structure and illustrate the elements and possibilities present in the websites. We decided to confirm the presence or absence of basic contact information that enable bidirectional communication channels with all the municipal representatives (names, surnames, emails, photographs, biographies, curriculum vitae), the existence of tools for local government accountability; historical, social, economic and cultural information of the municipality; the calendar of activities, the directory of municipal entities, mechanisms to participation in the design and monitoring of the governance plan and budgeting, the existence of suggestion boxes, the possibility to get in touch with the press cabinet, etc. This research follows the method and indicators of the Infoparticip@ project (Moreno-Sardà et al. 2013b) of the Laboratory of Journalism and Communication for Plural Citizenry (LPCCP, according to its initials in Spanish) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), which in recent years has carried out numerous research projects of impact in this line of work (see Molina Rodríguez-Navas, 2015). The following table presents the 19 variables of analysis, divided in two large blocks. One block studies the presence in municipal websites of data about the political representatives of the government and the opposition. The second set analyses the tools offered to citizens to hold their local government accountable. Variables of analysis Block 1: Presence of data on the political representatives of the government and the opposition on municipal websites. 1. Does the website provide basic information about the mayor: name and surname, photo and political party? 2. Does the website provide information about the mayor: biography and/or curriculum vitae? 3. Does the website provide basic information about the representatives of the government: names and surnames, photos and political party? 4. Does the website provide information about the representatives of the government: biography and/or curriculum vitae? 5. Does the website provide basic information about the representatives who are not part of the government: names and surnames, photos and political party? 6. Does the website provide information about the representatives who are not part of the government: biography and/or curriculum vitae? Block 2: Presence of tools for local government accountability on websites (I). 1. Does the website provide the email addresses of the members of the government?
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