Participatory Innovation And Representative Democracy In Latin America

Author : Andrew Selee,Enrique Peruzzotti
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801894069

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Participatory Innovation and Representative Democracy in Latin America by Andrew Selee,Enrique Peruzzotti Pdf

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 : Françoise Montambeault
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Leonardo Avritzer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786436658

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The Two Faces of Institutional Innovation by Leonardo Avritzer Pdf

This book evaluates democratic innovations to allow a full analysis of the different practices that have emerged recently in Latin America. These innovations, often viewed in a positive light by a large section of democratic theorists, engendered the idea that all innovations are democratic and all democratic innovations are able to foster citizenship – a view challenged by this work. The book also evaluates the expansion of innovation to the field of judicial institutions. It will benefit democratic theorists by presenting a realistic analysis of the positive and negative aspects of democratic innovation.

Author : J. Pearce
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230277342

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Participation and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century City by J. Pearce Pdf

Debates on participatory tend to be abstract, with references to experiences in Athens over 2000 years ago. This book uses recent experience in participatory innovations at the city level to explore the practice of participation. Taking examples from Latin America and the UK it argues the case for revitalizing democracy through participation.

Author : Thamy Pogrebinschi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108587204

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Innovating Democracy? by Thamy Pogrebinschi Pdf

Since democratization, Latin America has experienced a surge in new forms of citizen participation. Yet there is still little comparative knowledge on these so-called democratic innovations. This Element seeks to fill this gap. Drawing on a new dataset with 3,744 cases from 18 countries between 1990 and 2020, it presents the first large-N cross-country study of democratic innovations to date. It also introduces a typology of twenty kinds of democratic innovations, which are based on four means of participation, namely deliberation, citizen representation, digital engagement, and direct voting. Adopting a pragmatist, problem-driven approach, this Element claims that democratic innovations seek to enhance democracy by addressing public problems through combinations of those four means of participation in pursuit of one or more of five ends of innovations, namely accountability, responsiveness, rule of law, social equality, and political inclusion.

Author : Kenneth E. Sharpe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137270580

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New Institutions for Participatory Democracy in Latin America by Kenneth E. Sharpe Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Democratization
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133652565

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Democratic Innovation in the South by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gisela Zaremberg,Valeria Guarneros-Meza,Adrián Gurza Lavalle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319515380

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Intermediation and Representation in Latin America by Gisela Zaremberg,Valeria Guarneros-Meza,Adrián Gurza Lavalle Pdf

This book shows how the introduction of intermediation is relevant in studying political and public policy processes, as they are increasingly accompanied by grey spaces in public and non-public arenas that cannot be categorized as purely representative or purely participative. Instead, ‘hybrid’ mechanisms are developing in the policy-making process, which bring in new actors who either are unelected while being required to represent or advocate for the common good of others or are directly elected but challenged by identity/rights-based issues of the people they are required to act in the best interest of. By proposing a conceptual frame on intermediation and addressing five different Latin American countries and a wide range of case studies —from human rights, labour relations, neighbourhood management, municipal bureaucracies, social accountability, to complex national systems of citizen participation—this volume shows the versatility and validity of a tridimensional frame, the “cube of political intermediation” (CPI) as a tool for analysing public policy and understanding contemporary democratic innovation in Latin America.

Author : Yanina Welp
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783110732412

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The Will of the People by Yanina Welp Pdf

The Will of the People: Populism and Citizen Participation in Latin America argues that while populist leaders typically claim to speak 'in the name of the people', they rarely allow the people to express their opinion independently through institutions of citizen participation. The argument is rooted in theoretical discussions and empirical analyses of trends and specific cases. The volume deals with the following questions: Why is populism so prolific in the Latin American region? How and where do populist leaders arrive to power? Is there a connection between populism and fascism as claimed by negative views of Argentinian Peronism? Are populist leaders more keen on introducing mechanisms of direct citizen participation? Are the erosions of the political party system an explanation of the emergence of populism, as seems to be the case with Fujimorism in Peru? To what extent have the governments of Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales and Rafael Correa given voice to the people through the so-called participatory democracy?

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264725904

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Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions Catching the Deliberative Wave by OECD Pdf

Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions. They convene groups of people representing a wide cross-section of society for at least one full day – and often much longer – to learn, deliberate, and develop collective recommendations that consider the complexities and compromises required for solving multifaceted public issues.

Author : Benjamin Goldfrank
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Pascal Lupien
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438469195

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Citizens' Power in Latin America by Pascal Lupien Pdf

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 : Tulia G. Falleti,Emilio A. Parrado
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812249712

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Latin America Since the Left Turn by Tulia G. Falleti,Emilio A. Parrado Pdf

Latin America Since the Left Turn frames the tensions and contradictions that currently characterize Latin American societies and politics in the early decades of the twenty-first century, when many countries elected left-wing governments in an attempt to reverse the neoliberal agenda while others continued and even extended it.

Author : Lindsay Mayka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108470872

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Building Participatory Institutions in Latin America by Lindsay Mayka Pdf

Explains how and why some national mandates for participatory policymaking develop into powerful institutions for citizen engagement.

Author : Hubert Heinelt
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781785364358

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Handbook on Participatory Governance by Hubert Heinelt Pdf

This Handbook concentrates on democracy beyond the traditional governmental structures to explore the full scope of participatory governance. It argues that it is a political task to turn the shift from government to governance into participatory forms, and reflects on the notion of democracy and participatory governance, and how they can relate to each other. The volume offers key examples of how governance can be turned into a participatory form.