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Bootstrapping Democracy - Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil (Hardcover)
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Bootstrapping Democracy - Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil (Hardcover)
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Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government
can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain
about participation's real impact. 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.
Looking closely at eight cities in Brazil, comparing those that
carried out participatory budgeting reforms between 1997 and 2000
with those that did not, the authors examine whether and how
institutional reforms take effect.
"Bootstrapping Democracy" highlights the importance of local-level
innovations and democratic advances, charting a middle path between
those who theorize that globalization hollows out democracy and
those who celebrate globalization as a means of fostering
democratic values. Uncovering the state's role in creating an
"associational environment," it reveals the contradictory ways
institutional reforms shape the democratic capabilities of civil
society and how outcomes are conditioned by relations between the
state and civil society.
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