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Author : Lindsay Mayka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108470872
Explains how and why some national mandates for participatory policymaking develop into powerful institutions for citizen engagement.
Author : Françoise Montambeault
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804796576
Participatory democracy innovations aimed at bringing citizens back into local governance processes are now at the core of the international democratic development agenda. Municipalities around the world have adopted local participatory mechanisms of various types in the last two decades, including participatory budgeting, the flagship Brazilian program, and participatory planning, as it is the case in several Mexican municipalities. Yet, institutionalized participatory mechanisms have had mixed results in practice at the municipal level. So why and how does success vary? This book sets out to answer that question. Defining democratic success as a transformation of state-society relationships, the author goes beyond the clientelism/democracy dichotomy and reveals that four types of state-society relationships can be observed in practice: clientelism, disempowering co-option, fragmented inclusion, and democratic cooperation. Using this typology, and drawing on the comparative case study of four cities in Mexico and Brazil, the book demonstrates that the level of democratic success is best explained by an approach that accounts for institutional design, structural conditions of mobilization, and the configurations, strategies, behaviors, and perceptions of both state and societal actors. Thus, institutional change alone does not guarantee democratic success: the way these institutional changes are enacted by both political and social actors is even more important as it conditions the potential for an autonomous civil society to emerge and actively engage with the local state in the social construction of an inclusive citizenship.
Author : Kenneth E. Sharpe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137270580
This volume describes and analyzes the proliferation of new mechanisms for participation in Latin American democracies and considers the relationship between direct participation and the consolidation of representative institutions based on more traditional electoral conceptions of democracy.
Author : Eduardo Canel
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271037332
The transition to democracy underway in Latin America since the 1980s has recently witnessed a resurgence of interest in experimenting with new forms of local governance emphasizing more participation by ordinary citizens. The hope is both to foster the spread of democracy and to improve equity in the distribution of resources. While participatory budgeting has been a favorite topic of many scholars studying this new phenomenon, there are many other types of ongoing experiments. In Barrio Democracy in Latin America, Eduardo Canel focuses our attention on the innovative participatory programs launched by the leftist government in Montevideo, Uruguay, in the early 1990s. Based on his extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Canel examines how local activists in three low-income neighborhoods in that city dealt with the opportunities and challenges of implementing democratic practices and building better relationships with sympathetic city officials.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780804765374
"Third, the authors investigate the relationship between major parties and the state, revealing the extent to which parties are dependent on state resources to maintain power and win votes. Fourth, the contributions assess the importance of different electoral regimes for shaping broader patterns of party competition. Finally, and most important, the authors characterize the nature of the party system in each country - how institutionalized it is and how it can be classified."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Andrew Selee,Enrique Peruzzotti
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801894069
This empirically grounded collection examines the growth of participatory institutions in Latin American democracy and how such institutions affect representative government. While most existing literature concentrates on model cases of participatory budgeting in Brazil, this volume investigates cases in Mexico, Bolivia, Chile, Brazil, and Argentina, where conditions for innovation have been far less favorable. The contributors, while recognizing the important differences and potential clashes between participatory and representative forms of democracy, ultimately favor participation, emphasizing its capacity to enhance and strengthen representative democracy.
Author : Diana Kapiszewski,Steven Levitsky,Deborah J. Yashar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108842044
This volume analyzes how enduring democracy amid longstanding inequality engendered inclusionary reform in contemporary Latin America.
Author : Scott Mainwaring,Timothy R. Scully
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:683825941
Author : Douglas A. Chalmers,Carlos M. Vilas,Katherine Hite,Scott B. Martin,Kerianne Piester,Monique Segarra
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191525131
Against a broader backdrop of globalization and worldwide moves toward political democracy, The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America examines the unfolding relationships among social change, equity, and the democratic representation of the poor in Latin America. Recent Latin American governments have turned away from redistributive policies; at the same time, popular political and social organizations have been generally weakened, inequality has increased, and the gap between rich and poor has grown. Hanging in the balance is the consolidation and the quality of new or would-be democracies; this volume suggests that governments must find not just short-term programmes to alleviate poverty, but long-term means to ensure the effective integration of the poor into political life. The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America bridges the intellectual chasm between, on the one hand, studies of grassroots politics, and on the other, explorations of elite politics and formal institution-building. It will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Latin American politics and society and, more generally, in the vicissitudes of democracy and citizenship in the late twentieth-century global system.
Author : Pascal Lupien
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438469195
Examines why some democratic innovations succeed while others fail, using Venezuela, Ecuador, and Chile as case studies. Citizens’ Power in Latin America takes the reader into the heart of communities where average citizens are attempting to build a new democratic model to improve their socioeconomic conditions and to have a voice in decisions that affect their lives. Based on groundbreaking fieldwork conducted in Venezuela, Ecuador, and Chile, Pascal Lupien contrasts two models of participatory design that have emerged in Latin America and identifies the factors that enhance or diminish the capacity of these mechanisms to produce positive outcomes. He draws on lived experiences of citizen participants to reveal the potential and the dangers of participatory democracy. Why do some democratic innovations appear to succeed while others fail? To what extent do these institutions really empower citizens, and in what ways can they be used by governments to control participation? What lessons can be learned from these experiments? Given the growing dissatisfaction with existing democratic systems across the world, this book will be of interest to people seeking innovative ways of deepening democracy. Pascal Lupien teaches in the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program at the University of Guelph and is a Research Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Ontario, Canada.
Author : Scott Mainwaring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107175525
This book generates a wealth of new empirical information about Latin American party systems and contributes richly to major theoretical debates about party systems and democracy.
Author : Benjamin Goldfrank
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271074511
The resurgence of the Left in Latin America over the past decade has been so notable that it has been called “the Pink Tide.” In recent years, regimes with leftist leaders have risen to power in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Venezuela. What does this trend portend for the deepening of democracy in the region? Benjamin Goldfrank has been studying the development of participatory democracy in Latin America for many years, and this book represents the culmination of his empirical investigations in Brazil, Uruguay, and Venezuela. In order to understand why participatory democracy has succeeded better in some countries than in others, he examines the efforts in urban areas that have been undertaken in the cities of Porto Alegre, Montevideo, and Caracas. His findings suggest that success is related, most crucially, to how nationally centralized political authority is and how strongly institutionalized the opposition parties are in the local arenas.
Author : Sara Niedzwiecki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108472043
Social policies can transform the lives of the poor, yet subnational politics and state capacity often inhibit their success.
Author : Candelaria Garay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107152229
This book provides a novel explanation of widespread social policy expansion in Latin America beginning in the 1990s.
Author : Miguel A. Centeno,Agustin E. Ferraro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107311305
The growth of institutional capacity in the developing world has become a central theme in twenty-first-century social science. Many studies have shown that public institutions are an important determinant of long-run rates of economic growth. This book argues that to understand the difficulties and pitfalls of state building in the contemporary world, it is necessary to analyze previous efforts to create institutional capacity in conflictive contexts. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the process of state and nation building in Latin America and Spain from independence to the 1930s. The book examines how Latin American countries and Spain tried to build modern and efficient state institutions for more than a century - without much success. The Spanish and Latin American experience of the nineteenth century was arguably the first regional stage on which the organizational and political dilemmas that still haunt states were faced. This book provides an unprecedented perspective on the development and contemporary outcome of those state and nation-building projects.
