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Civil Society and Participatory Governance - Municipal Councils and Social Housing Programs in Brazil (Paperback)
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Civil Society and Participatory Governance - Municipal Councils and Social Housing Programs in Brazil (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics
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Democratic institutions should promote accountability of government
officials to the needs of citizens. Civil society plays a role in
exposing corruption as well as in communicating the needs of
low-income residents to officials. Neither the institutions of
representative democracy nor the presence of civil society,
however, appears to automatically guarantee adoption of social
benefits for the poor. Can democratic institutions be created to
address social challenges? Scholars, development practitioners,
donors, and activists propose participatory governance institutions
as mechanisms to create accountability and responsiveness through a
public forum incorporating civil society. To date, however, little
comparative research exists to confirm whether these institutions
do influence adoption of social policies. Maureen M. Donaghy
remedies this gap by combining data from Brazil's 5,564
municipalities with extensive fieldwork from five Brazilian cities
to test whether participatory municipal housing councils are
associated with an increase in adoption of social housing programs
to benefit the poor. Housing represents an issue of critical
importance in Brazil and other developing countries where large
populations reside in informal settlements in unsafe and insecure
conditions. Civil Society and Participatory Governance is the first
book of its kind to move the conversation beyond budgeting to other
social policy areas, providing fresh theoretical and empirical
insights to demonstrate that participatory governance institutions
are effective mechanisms to coordinate government officials and
civil society to alter policy-making.
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