Inventing local democracy : grassroots politics in Brazil /

Abers (political science, Center for Public Policy Research, U. of Brasília, Brazil) provides a close study of innovative city government in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Led by the Workers' Party, the city implemented a participatory budget program in which residents meet in their neighborhoods to de...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Abers, Rebecca
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000.
Temas:
Local government > Brazil > Citizen participation > Case studies.
Political participation > Brazil > Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
Administration locale > Brésil > Participation des citoyens > Études de cas.
Participation politique > Brésil > Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Local government > Citizen participation
Political participation
Politics and government > Citizen participation
Lokaal bestuur.
Democratie.
Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) > Politics and government > Citizen participation.
Brazil
Brazil > Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Participation, Empowerment, and State-Society Relations
  • Urban Politics and Neighborhood Organizing in Brazil
  • Transforming Local Governance: The PT and the Challenges of Participation
  • From Ideals to Practice: Building Participatory Policy
  • Participation and Governability
  • Building Political Support
  • Integrating the Excluded
  • Who Participates? Inequality and the Participatory Budget Process
  • Mobilizing Neighborhoods
  • Emerging Political Capacities
  • From Clientelism to Cooperation: Strengthening Civic Organizations
  • Building "Enlarged Thinking"
  • Resisting Co-optation, Contesting Government Control
  • Overcoming the Dilemmas of Participatory Democracy.

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