Research Catalog

Title

Activating democracy in Brazil : popular participation, social justice, and interlocking institutions / Brian Wampler.

Author

Wampler, Brian

Publication

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2015]

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Additional Authors

Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies

Description

xiv, 297 pages; 23 cm

Summary

In 1988, Brazil's Constitution marked the formal establishment of a new democratic regime. In the ensuing two and a half decades, Brazilian citizens, civil society organizations, and public officials have undertaken the slow, arduous task of building new institutions to ensure that Brazilian citizens have access to rights that improve their quality of life, expand their voice and vote, change the distribution of public goods, and deepen the quality of democracy. Civil society activists and ordinary citizens now participate in a multitude of state-sanctioned institutions, including public policy management councils, public policy conferences, participatory budgeting programs, and legislative hearings. 'Activating Democracy in Brazil' examines how the proliferation of democratic institutions in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, has transformed the way in which citizens, CSOs, and political parties work together to change the existing state. According to Wampler, the 1988 Constitution marks the formal start of the participatory citizenship regime, but there has been tremendous variation in how citizens and public officials have carried it out. This book demonstrates that the variation results from the interplay of five factors: state formation, the development of civil society, government support for citizens' use of their voice and vote, the degree of public resources available for spending on services and public goods, and the rules that regulate forms of participation, representation, and deliberation within participatory venues. By focusing on multiple democratic institutions over a twenty-year period, this book illustrates how the participatory citizenship regime generates political and social change.--

Series Statement

From the helen kellogg institute for international studies

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Brazil
• Democracy
• Democracy > Brazil
• Political participation
• Political participation > Brazil
• Social justice
• Social justice > Brazil

Note

• "From the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Activating democracy in Brazil -- Establishing the participatory citizenship regime -- Rebuilding the local state -- Innovation and renewal of participatory budgeting -- Councils and conferences : health care, housing, and social services -- Transforming the engagement of civil society organizations : adopting new strategies in the participatory citizenship regime -- Transforming favelas -- Activating democracy : Belo Horizonte and beyond.

ISBN

• 9780268044305
• 0268044309

LCCN

^^2014047955

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library