Deepening Local Democracy In Latin America

Author : Benjamin Goldfrank
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271056777

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Deepening Local Democracy in Latin America by Benjamin Goldfrank Pdf

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 : Kurt von Mettenheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:811254850

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Deepening Democracy in Latin America by Kurt von Mettenheim Pdf

Author : Kurt von Mettenheim,James M. Malloy
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822971924

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Deepening Democracy in Latin America by Kurt von Mettenheim,James M. Malloy Pdf

Ten leading scholars of the region present original research to argue that theories of democratic consolidation or institutionalization are too often Euro- and ethno-centric; that simple appeals for greater participation are insufficient; and that recent critics of populism, patronage, and presidentialism fail to capture new opportunities for democracies in the region.

Author : Françoise Montambeault
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804796576

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The Politics of Local Participatory Democracy in Latin America by Françoise Montambeault Pdf

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 : Francis Adams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313390128

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Adams surveys the impact of transnational organizations and NGOs on Latin American politics since 1990. The transition from military to civilian rule in Latin American countries has benefited local progressive forces, but resilient remnants favoring the past's authoritarian politics have compelled organizations like the UN, IMF, OAS, and World Bank to engage in various campaigns to deepen democratic institutions and norms. Adams argues that to understand current political transformations in the region, one must consider the existing role of external organizations. Latin America is offered as a prime example of the increased influence transnational authorities have over political decisions that had long been the exclusive prerogative of national governments. Beginning with the Latin American experience, Adams reviews the contemporary character of power and politics in the area, outlining how democratic transitions have been limited. UN human rights and reform initiatives are considered. Adams scrutinizes the work of the World Bank, the IMF, and the Inter-American Development Bank to modernize public administration, strengthen political institutions, enhance transparency and accountability, and fortify civil society. He also examines the work and impact and the Organization of American States and various global citizens groups.

Author : Gabriel Hetland
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231557092

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Democracy on the Ground by Gabriel Hetland Pdf

Is democracy possible only when it is safe for elites? Latin American history seems to suggest so. Right-wing forces have repeatedly deposed elected governments that challenged the rich and accepted democracy only after the defanging of the Left and widespread market reform. Latin America’s recent “left turn” raised the question anew: how would the Right react if democracy threatened elite interests? This book examines the complex relationship of the Left, the Right, and democracy through the lens of local politics in Venezuela and Bolivia. Drawing on two years of fieldwork, Gabriel Hetland compares attempts at participatory reform in cities governed by the Left and Right in each country. He finds that such measures were more successful in Venezuela than Bolivia regardless of which type of party held office, though existing research suggests that deepening democracy is much more likely under a left party. Hetland accounts for these findings by arguing that Venezuela’s ruling party achieved hegemony—presenting its ideas as the ideas of all—while Bolivia’s ruling party did not. The Venezuelan Right was compelled to act on the Left’s political terrain; this pushed it to implement participatory reform in an unexpectedly robust way. In Bolivia, demobilization of popular movements led to an inhospitable environment for local democratic deepening under any party. Democracy on the Ground shows that, just as right-wing hegemony can reshape the Left, leftist hegemony can reshape the Right. Offering new perspectives on participation, populism, and Latin American politics, this book challenges widespread ideas about the constraints on democracy.

Author : Benjamin Goldfrank
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271074511

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Deepening Local Democracy in Latin America by Benjamin Goldfrank Pdf

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 : Eduardo Canel
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271037332

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Barrio Democracy in Latin America by Eduardo Canel Pdf

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 : Kenneth M. Roberts
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804731942

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Deepening Democracy? by Kenneth M. Roberts Pdf

Through a comparative analysis of the political Left and social movements in Chile and Peru, this book explores the structural and institutional forces which have limited the scope and quality of democracy in contemporary Latin America.

Author : John Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032201487

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Deepening Democracy in Post-Neoliberal Bolivia and Venezuela by John Brown Pdf

This book provides a timely and nuanced analysis of the successes and shortcoming of efforts to move beyond market democracy in Bolivia and Venezuela. It will be of interest to researchers studying Latin America, as well as those specialising in development and political science more broadly.

Author : Steven Levitsky,Kenneth M. Roberts
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781421401614

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The Resurgence of the Latin American Left by Steven Levitsky,Kenneth M. Roberts Pdf

Latin America experienced an unprecedented wave of left-leaning governments between 1998 and 2010. This volume examines the causes of this leftward turn and the consequences it carries for the region in the twenty-first century. The Resurgence of the Latin American Left asks three central questions: Why have left-wing parties and candidates flourished in Latin America? How have these leftist parties governed, particularly in terms of social and economic policy? What effects has the rise of the Left had on democracy and development in the region? The book addresses these questions through two sections. The first looks at several major themes regarding the contemporary Latin American Left, including whether Latin American public opinion actually shifted leftward in the 2000s, why the Left won in some countries but not in others, and how the left turn has affected market economies, social welfare, popular participation in politics, and citizenship rights. The second section examines social and economic policy and regime trajectories in eight cases: those of leftist governments in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Uruguay, and Venezuela, as well as that of a historically populist party that governed on the right in Peru. Featuring a new typology of Left parties in Latin America, an original framework for identifying and categorizing variation among these governments, and contributions from prominent and influential scholars of Latin American politics, this historical-institutional approach to understanding the region’s left turn—and variation within it—is the most comprehensive explanation to date on the topic.

Author : Diana Kapiszewski,Steven Levitsky,Deborah J. Yashar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108842044

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The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies by Diana Kapiszewski,Steven Levitsky,Deborah J. Yashar Pdf

This volume analyzes how enduring democracy amid longstanding inequality engendered inclusionary reform in contemporary Latin America.

Author : Gianpaolo Baiocchi,Patrick Heller,Marcelo Kunrath Silva,Marcelo Silva
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804760560

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Bootstrapping Democracy by Gianpaolo Baiocchi,Patrick Heller,Marcelo Kunrath Silva,Marcelo Silva Pdf

This book investigates participatory budgeting—a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs—to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society.

Author : Archon Fung,Erik Olin Wright
Publisher : Verso
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 1859846882

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Deepening Democracy by Archon Fung,Erik Olin Wright Pdf

The forms of liberal democracy developed in the 19th century seem increasingly ill-suited to the problems we face in the 21st. This dilemma has given rise to a deliberative democracy, and this text explores four contemporary cases in which the principles have been at least partially instituted.

Author : Hollie Russon Gilman
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815726845

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Democracy Reinvented by Hollie Russon Gilman Pdf

Participatory Budgeting—the experiment in democracy that could redefine how public budgets are decided in the United States. Democracy Reinvented is the first comprehensive academic treatment of participatory budgeting in the United States, situating it within a broader trend of civic technology and innovation. This global phenomenon, which has been called "revolutionary civics in action" by the New York Times, started in Brazil in 1989 but came to America only in 2009. Participatory budgeting empowers citizens to identify community needs, work with elected officials to craft budget proposals, and vote on how to spend public funds. Democracy Reinvented places participatory budgeting within the larger discussion of the health of U.S. democracy and focuses on the enabling political and institutional conditions. Author and former White House policy adviser Hollie Russon Gilman presents theoretical insights, indepth case studies, and interviews to offer a compelling alternative to the current citizen disaffection and mistrust of government. She offers policy recommendations on how to tap online tools and other technological and civic innovations to promote more inclusive governance. While most literature tends to focus on institutional changes without solutions, this book suggests practical ways to empower citizens to become change agents. Reinvesting in Democracy also includes a discussion on the challenges and opportunities that come with using digital tools to re-engage citizens in governance.