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Author:   Patricio Silva ,  Herwig Cleuren
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   97
Weight:   0.763kg
ISBN:  

9789004177833

ISBN 10:   9004177833
Pages:   369
Publication Date:   17 August 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements 1. Assessing Participatory Democracy in Brazil and Chile: An Introduction, Patricio Silva and Herwig Cleuren COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES 2. Grassroots Movements and Political Activism in Chile and Brazil, Joe Foweraker 3. Local Democracy and Popular Participation in Chile and Brazil, Paul W. Posner THE CASE OF BRAZIL: PARTICIPATION FROM BELOW 4. Participative Institutions in Brazil: Mayors and the Expansion of Accountability in Comparative Perspective, Brian Wampler 5. The Redistributive Effects of the Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre, Adalmir Marquetti 6. Politicizing the Civic: Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre, Gianpaolo Baiocchi 7. State-Society Synergy and the Problems of Participation in Porto Alegre, Rebecca N. Abers 8. Assessing the Claims of Proponents and Critics of the Participatory Budget: Lessons from Minas Gerais, Brazil, William R. Nylen 9. Surviving Regime Change?: Participatory Democracy and the Politics of Citizenship in Porto Alegre, Kees Koonings THE CASE OF CHILE: CONSULTATION FROM ABOVE 10. Civic Deliberation and Participatory Budgeting: The case of San Joaquin, Santiago de Chile, Adolfo Castillo Diaz 11. Participation and Mestizaje of State-Civil Society in Chile, Gonzalo de la Maza 12. Citizens' Involvement and Social Policies in Chile: Patronage or Participation? Vicente Espinoza 13. Old Habits in New Clothes, or Clientelism, Patronage and the Union Democrata Independiente, Marcus Klein 14. Top-Down and Bottom-Up Democracy in Chile under Bachelet, Patricio Navia Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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Widening Democracy: Citizens and Participatory Schemes in Brazil and Chile is an excellent attempt to put together the debates on democratization and participation through a comparative perspective. Though there are other books on participatory budgeting today, none of them binds in such an original way the debates on political tradition before the period of authoritarianism, types of transition, and the role of civil society in the transition and the different processes of constitution making. The reader of the book will greatly enrich his/her conception about the construction of democracy in Latin America. Leonardo Avritzer Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

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Patricio Silva, Ph.D. (1987) in Political Science, Leiden University, is Professor of Modern Latin American History at Leiden University and Director of the Department of Latin American Studies. He has published extensively on the technocratic phenomenon in Latin America including In the Name of Reason: Technocrats and Politics in Chile (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008). Herwig Cleuren, Ph.D. (2001) in Sociology of Development, Leiden University, has been Assistant Professor of Modern Latin American Studies at Leiden University. He is the author of several publications on participatory democracy in Brazil and Chile, including 'Local Democracy and Participation in Post-Authoritarian Chile' (European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2007).

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