Inventing Local Democracy: Grassroots Politics in Brazil

by Abers, Rebecca Neaera

ISBN13:
9781555878931
ISBN10:
1555878938
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 2000-06-30
Publisher: Lynne Rienner
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Author Biography

Rebecca Abers is associate researcher at the Nucleo de Pesquisa em Politicas Publicas (Center for Public Policy Research) of the University of Brasilia, Brazil

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Participation, Empowerment, and State-Society Relations

(24)

Part 1 Context

Urban Politics and Neighborhood Organizing in Brazil

(22)

Transforming Local Governance: The PT and the Challenges of Participation

(18)

Part 2 From Ideals to Practice: Building Participatory Policy

Participation and Governability

(26)

Building Political Support

(24)

Part 3 Integrating the Excluded

Who Participates? Inequality and the Participatory Budget Process

115

(20)

Mobilizing Neighborhoods

135

(22)

Part 4 Emerging Political Capacities

From Clientelism to Cooperation: Strengthening Civic Organizations

157

(20)

Building ``Enlarged Thinking''

177

(18)

Resisting Co-optation, Contesting Government Control

195

(22)

Part 5 Conclusions

Overcoming the Dilemmas of Participatory Democracy

217

(12)

Methodological Appendix

229

(4)

Glossary of Portuguese Words and Phrases

233

(2)

Acronyms and Abbreviations

235

(4)

References

239

(18)

Index

257

(12)

About the Book

269

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