1 Participation, representation and expertise: Citizen preferences for political decision- making processes Joan Font Institute of Advanced Social Studies (IESA-CSIC) Magdalena Wojcieszak University of Amsterdam Clemente Navarro Universidad Pablo de Olavide This paper was submitted to Political Studies in November 2013. A newer and richer version has been published by Political Studies in February 2015 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9248.12191/abstract Joan Font is the Director of the Institute of Advanced Social Studies (IESA-CSIC) in Cordoba, (Spain). Magdalena Wojcieszak (PhD. Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania) is an Associate Professor at Amsterdam University (Netherlands). Clemente Navarro is Professor at the Centre for Local Political Sociology and Policies at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain). Keywords: Democracy, participation, representation, stealth democracy, process preferences