Inventing Local Democracy
Grassroots Politics in Brazil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23399802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Neaera Abers, Rebecca Abers (0000-0002-4816-9345, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Pages | 588 |
| Publication date | 2000-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Reviewed by | Inventing Local Democracy: Grassroots Politics in Brazil, Lisa Baldez, 2001 |
| Venue | Inventing Local Democracy (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Lynne Rienner Publishers (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9781626371378 |
| OpenAlex | W4300242732 |
| Open Library | OL51666539M |
| ISBN | 9781626371378 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 248 |
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 decisionmaking power to ordinary citizens on a large scale—and managed to survive and prosper. Since 1989, the government of Porto Alegre, Brazil, led by the Workers' Party, has implemented a participatory budget program that is becoming a model for policymakers worldwide. Each year in this regional capital of 1.3 million people, residents meet in their neighborhoods to determine budget priorities. Tens of thousands attend the annual budget assemblies. Nearly a thousand work as delegates year-round, and a popularly elected council has final say on all city spending. Inventing Local Democracy tells this dramatic story of a group of activists who came to power in a city long dominated by patronage politics and elite rule. At the same time, it is a sociopolitical study of the impact that state-sponsored participatory forums can have on civil society. Examining this dual transformation, Abers provides a groundbreaking contribution to the theory of participatory democracy.
Democracy · Political science · Politics · Law · Social Media and Politics · Brazil · Case studies · Citizen participation · Local government · Political participation · politics and government · Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul
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Council Democracy and Brazil’s Transition to Democracy
Captured participatory institutions
Orçamentos Participativos em Portugal
Expanding Accountability through Participatory Institutions
Participatory Budgeting and the Poor
Representando a diversidade
A democratização dos Conselhos de Saúde
Mobilisations en réseaux, activisme numérique
Accessing International Policy Diffusion
Participatory Budgeting
Ambassadors of Participation
Participatory Governance
Demokratischer Streit
Votes for Survival
When Movements Become Parties
The right to the city
Towards a Planning Imagination for the 21st Century
Participatory Democracy, Decentralization and Local Governance
La démocratie participative comme structure d'opportunité et de renforcement de la notabilité sectorielle
The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies
Strategising the metropolis in a global era
Inequality, Democracy, and the Inclusionary Turn in Latin America
Participatory Democracy Revisited
Information, accountability and perceptions of public sector programme success
The Role of Media in Diffusing Participatory Budgeting
John Dewey between Participatory Democracy and Direct Action
Five years of local democracy in federal Nepal (2017–2022)
Learning to facilitate deliberation
Institutional activism amidst participatory constraints
When a government attempts to institutionalize and regulate deliberative democracy
Deliberative capital
The different designs of public participation in Brazil
Knowing Left from Right
Bridging the Participation Gap with Government-sponsored Neighborhood Development Programs
Global cities, global justice
Participatory citizenship in the making? The multiple citizenship trajectories of participatory budgeting participants in Brazil
Local councils as movement resource
Public Leisure Policies in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Popular Participation in Venezuela's Barrio Adentro Health Reform
Learning Radical Planning
Assemblage and critical urbanism
Participatory budgeting, austerity and institutions of democracy
Social movements as ‘critical urban planning’ agents
Common Patterns in Coping with Under-Representation in Participatory Processes
Heterosexual Attendance at Gay Events
Unequal diversity – on the political economy of social cohesion in Vienna
Decoding Valuing People
Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty-first Century
The value of participatory urban policy councils
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Participatory Budgeting in Brazil
The Uses of Planning Theory
Participation, Decentralization, and Civil Society
Covert Planning for Social Transformation in Indonesia
Commentary
Evolving Institutional Arrangements, Scaling Up, and Sustainability
Distinguishing Participation and Inclusion
Improving Participation for Sustainable Transport
Democratizing Decentralization in Bolivia
Community-based Planning and Poverty Alleviation in Oaxaca, Mexico
Successful and Unsuccessful Participatory Arrangements
The contradictions of participatory planning
The struggle for the new commons in the Brazilian free transit movement
What do participants participate in? Insights from the community of Peccioli
Deliberative Democracy and the Paradox of Participation
From divided to integrated city
Untangling ‘integration’ in urban development policy debates
Decolonising territory
Following in the Footsteps of Policy Entrepreneurs
Pathways to Citizen Accountability
Inclusive Development and the Asymmetric State
Social Capital and Institutional Trust
Barriers to Participation
Politics or Technical Criteria? The Determinants of Infrastructure Investments in Brazil
The digital revolution and governance in Brazil
Toward co-creation
Participatory budgeting in north america
Zhen Brasil’s Japanese Brazilian Groove
Cities as New Spaces for Citizenship Claims
Netzwerkmanagement
“Tradition as Adventure”
From Dissent to Democracy
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Democracy at Work
A metamorfose do orçamento participativo
Interesses e idéias em políticas participativas
Participatory health councils and good governance
Engaging the Brazilian state
Cooptation and non-cooptation
Participatory Budgeting in Public Sphere, Governance, Transparency and Participation
Transnational urban policies
Implementing the Farm-to-Fork Strategy
Relational Work and Policy Change
Master planning ‘as a verb’
Os Limites Da Democracia
Party Systems, Political Competition, and Inequality in Subnational Brazil
Developing Political Strategies across a New Democratic and State Architecture
Councils and Revolution
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| Unique citing works | 247 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 9,54 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 239 |