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OverviewCan a political project exist outside of the power relations from which it is trying to emerge? In the twilight of Brazil’s twenty-one year military regime, a new union movement emerged in São Paulo’s industrial region, giving life to a new political party: the Workers’ Party. The electoral success enjoyed by the party enabled it to champion a whole raft of democratic reforms and Brazil is now celebrated as a laboratory for popular and participatory forms of government. However, through analysis of the trajectory of the Worker Party’s democratic experiment, the true challenge of embedding democracy inside existing state structures emerges. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, Victor Albert provides a critical analysis of citizen participation in Santo André, in the region of Greater São Paulo where the Workers’ Party was founded, holding a microscope to the power relations between political appointees, public officials and local community activists. Albert also reveals how different social actors think and feel about citizen participation away from formal assemblies, and how some participants engage in what is a tenuous, and at times mutually distrustful, tactical and strategic relationship with political patrons. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Victor AlbertPublisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.391kg ISBN: 9780745336121ISBN 10: 0745336124 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 20 June 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Series Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Democratisation, Reform and Participation in Brazil 2. Rituals and Ritualisation 3. Participatory Budgeting: Ritualisations of Petitioning and Power 4. Embedded Participatory Institutions: The Urban Development Council and the Housing Council 5. Shared Practices, Contrasting Ideologies 6. Backstage Conclusion: Reimagining Participatory Democracy Notes References IndexReviewsThis is a book about- participatory democracy in Brazil in spaces organised by the state. It presents the contest for political power within states structures showing us that it is not enough the existence of democratic processes to provide an active and participatory society. How this process occurs will give sense and meaning. -- Prof Dr Maria da Gloria Gohn, Professor of Sociology at the University of Campinas, Brazil Takes readers deep inside the interworking of the one of world's most well-known participatory experiences. The richly layered case study and sharp analysis demonstrate the real constraints placed on participatory programs by the modern state. Albert's excellent contribution to the study of citizen participation illuminates the problems of embedding participatory democracy inside existing state structures. -- Dr. Brian Wampler, Professor of Political Science, Boise State University (USA) This is a book about participatory democracy in Brazil in spaces organised by the state. It presents the contest for political power within states structures showing us that it is not enough the existence of democratic processes to provide an active and participatory society. How this process occurs will give sense and meaning. -- Prof Dr Maria da Gloria Gohn, Professor of Sociology at the University of Campinas, Brazil Author InformationVictor Albert is currently Post-Doctoral Research Fellow for the Centre for Metropolitan Studies at the University of Sao Paulo. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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