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Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United
States, three-fourths of all cities have developed opportunities
for citizen involvement in strategic planning. The World Bank has
invested $85 billion over the last decade to support community
participation worldwide. But even as these opportunities have
become more popular, many contend that they have also become less
connected to actual centers of power and the jurisdictions where
issues relevant to communities are decided. With this book,
Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Ernesto Ganuza consider the opportunities
and challenges of democratic participation. Examining how one
mechanism of participation has traveled the world-with its
inception in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and spread to Europe and North
America-they show how participatory instruments have become more
focused on the formation of public opinion and are far less
attentive to, or able to influence, actual reform. Though the
current impact and benefit of participatory forms of government is
far more ambiguous than its advocates would suggest, Popular
Democracy concludes with suggestions of how participation could
better achieve its political ideals.
Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United
States, three-fourths of all cities have developed opportunities
for citizen involvement in strategic planning. The World Bank has
invested $85 billion over the last decade to support community
participation worldwide. But even as these opportunities have
become more popular, many contend that they have also become less
connected to actual centers of power and the jurisdictions where
issues relevant to communities are decided. With this book,
Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Ernesto Ganuza consider the opportunities
and challenges of democratic participation. Examining how one
mechanism of participation has traveled the world—with its
inception in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and spread to Europe and North
America—they show how participatory instruments have become more
focused on the formation of public opinion and are far less
attentive to, or able to influence, actual reform. Though the
current impact and benefit of participatory forms of government is
far more ambiguous than its advocates would suggest, Popular
Democracy concludes with suggestions of how participation could
better achieve its political ideals.
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