Inventing Local Democracy : : Grassroots Politics in Brazil / / Rebecca Neaera Abers.
Countless studies of citizen participation in public decisionmaking point out the limitations of direct democracy when it is transported from the realm of political theory into the "real world." In contrast, this book examines a case where an innovative city government gave major decisionm...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Participation, Empowerment, and State-Society Relations
- Part 1. Context
- 2. Urban Politics and Neighborhood Organizing in Brazil
- 3. Transforming Local Governance: The PT and the Challenges of Participation
- Part 2. From Ideals to Practice: Building Participatory Policy
- 4. Participation and Governability
- 5. Building Political Support
- Part 3. Integrating the Excluded
- 6. Who Participates? Inequality and the Participatory Budget Process
- 7. Mobilizing Neighborhoods
- Part 4. Emerging Political Capacities
- 8. From Clientelism to Cooperation: Strengthening Civic Organizations
- 9. Building “Enlarged Thinking”
- 10. Resisting Co-optation, Contesting Government Control
- Part 5. Conclusions
- 11. Overcoming the Dilemmas of Participatory Democracy
- Methodological Appendix
- Glossary of Portuguese Words and Phrases
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- References
- Index
- About the Book