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Militants and Citizens - The Politics of Participatory Democracy in Porto Alegre (Paperback): Gianpaolo Baiocchi Militants and Citizens - The Politics of Participatory Democracy in Porto Alegre (Paperback)
Gianpaolo Baiocchi
R731 R685 Discovery Miles 6 850 Save R46 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Brazil's democracy has frequently been described as unconsolidated, its citizens as apathetic and uninterested in politics. But in Porto Alegre, a host city to the World Social Forum, thousands of ordinary citizens participate in local governance, making binding decisions on urban policy on a daily basis. While there has been immense attention paid to the practice of participatory democracy in Porto Alegre, this is the first book to examine the politics, culture, and day-to-day activities of its citizens. Drawing on the rich tradition of urban ethnography and political theory, the book argues that Porto Alegre's importance may lie not just with its effective governance, but with its new political logic, namely a greater access to government functions and government officials for traditionally disenfranchised citizens. In an age characterized by seemingly strong voter apathy, this study has global implications. The author shows that in the discussions on the failings of democracy in industrialized countries like the United States, most people may be missing what is central to civic engagement - unimpeded access to government.

Civic Imagination - Making a Difference in American Political Life (Paperback): Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Elizabeth A Bennett, Alissa... Civic Imagination - Making a Difference in American Political Life (Paperback)
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Elizabeth A Bennett, Alissa Cordner, Peter Klein, Stephanie Savell
R1,219 Discovery Miles 12 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Civic Imagination provides a rich empirical description of civic life and a broader discussion of the future of democracy in contemporary America. Over the course of a year, five researchers observed and participated in 7 civic organisations in a mid-sized US city. They draw on this ethnographic evidence to map the 'civic imaginations' that motivate citizenship engagement in America today. The book unpacks how contemporary Americans think about and act toward positive social and political change while the authors' findings challenge contemporary assertions of American apathy. This will be an important book for students and academics interested in political science and sociology.

Civic Imagination - Making a Difference in American Political Life (Hardcover): Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Elizabeth A Bennett, Alissa... Civic Imagination - Making a Difference in American Political Life (Hardcover)
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Elizabeth A Bennett, Alissa Cordner, Peter Klein, Stephanie Savell
R4,735 Discovery Miles 47 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Civic Imagination provides a rich empirical description of civic life and a broader discussion of the future of democracy in contemporary America. Over the course of a year, five researchers observed and participated in 7 civic organisations in a mid-sized US city. They draw on this ethnographic evidence to map the 'civic imaginations' that motivate citizenship engagement in America today. The book unpacks how contemporary Americans think about and act toward positive social and political change while the authors' findings challenge contemporary assertions of American apathy. This will be an important book for students and academics interested in political science and sociology.

Popular Democracy - The Paradox of Participation (Hardcover): Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Ernesto Ganuza Popular Democracy - The Paradox of Participation (Hardcover)
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Ernesto Ganuza
R2,588 Discovery Miles 25 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Militants and Citizens - The Politics of Participatory Democracy in Porto Alegre (Hardcover, New): Gianpaolo Baiocchi Militants and Citizens - The Politics of Participatory Democracy in Porto Alegre (Hardcover, New)
Gianpaolo Baiocchi
R2,591 Discovery Miles 25 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Brazil's democracy has frequently been described as unconsolidated, its citizens as apathetic and uninterested in politics. But in Porto Alegre, a host city to the World Social Forum, thousands of ordinary citizens participate in local governance, making binding decisions on urban policy on a daily basis. While there has been immense attention paid to the practice of participatory democracy in Porto Alegre, this is the first book to examine the politics, culture, and day-to-day activities of its citizens. Drawing on the rich tradition of urban ethnography and political theory, the book argues that Porto Alegre's importance may lie not just with its effective governance, but with its new political logic, namely a greater access to government functions and government officials for traditionally disenfranchised citizens. In an age characterized by seemingly strong voter apathy, this study has global implications. The author shows that in the discussions on the failings of democracy in industrialized countries like the United States, most people may be missing what is central to civic engagement - unimpeded access to government.

Beyond Civil Society - Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America (Hardcover): Sonia E. Alvarez, Jeffrey W. Rubin,... Beyond Civil Society - Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America (Hardcover)
Sonia E. Alvarez, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Millie Thayer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Agustin Lao-Montes
R2,713 Discovery Miles 27 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The contributors to Beyond Civil Society argue that the conventional distinction between civic and uncivic protest, and between activism in institutions and in the streets, does not accurately describe the complex interactions of forms and locations of activism characteristic of twenty-first-century Latin America. They show that most contemporary political activism in the region relies upon both confrontational collective action and civic participation at different moments. Operating within fluid, dynamic, and heterogeneous fields of contestation, activists have not been contained by governments or conventional political categories, but rather have overflowed their boundaries, opening new democratic spaces or extending existing ones in the process. These essays offer fresh insight into how the politics of activism, participation, and protest are manifest in Latin America today while providing a new conceptual language and an interpretive framework for examining issues that are critical for the future of the region and beyond. Contributors. Sonia E. Alvarez, Kiran Asher, Leonardo Avritzer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Andrea Cornwall, Graciela DiMarco, Arturo Escobar, Raphael Hoetmer, Benjamin Junge, Luis E. Lander, Agustin Lao-Montes, Margarita Lopez Maya, Jose Antonio Lucero, Graciela Monteagudo, Amalia Pallares, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Ana Claudia Teixeira, Millie Thayer

Bootstrapping Democracy - Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil (Paperback): Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Patrick... Bootstrapping Democracy - Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil (Paperback)
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Patrick Heller, Marcelo Silva
R657 R619 Discovery Miles 6 190 Save R38 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Popular Democracy - The Paradox of Participation (Paperback): Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Ernesto Ganuza Popular Democracy - The Paradox of Participation (Paperback)
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Ernesto Ganuza
R720 R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Save R46 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Beyond Civil Society - Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America (Paperback): Sonia E. Alvarez, Jeffrey W. Rubin,... Beyond Civil Society - Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America (Paperback)
Sonia E. Alvarez, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Millie Thayer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Agustin Lao-Montes
R786 Discovery Miles 7 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The contributors to Beyond Civil Society argue that the conventional distinction between civic and uncivic protest, and between activism in institutions and in the streets, does not accurately describe the complex interactions of forms and locations of activism characteristic of twenty-first-century Latin America. They show that most contemporary political activism in the region relies upon both confrontational collective action and civic participation at different moments. Operating within fluid, dynamic, and heterogeneous fields of contestation, activists have not been contained by governments or conventional political categories, but rather have overflowed their boundaries, opening new democratic spaces or extending existing ones in the process. These essays offer fresh insight into how the politics of activism, participation, and protest are manifest in Latin America today while providing a new conceptual language and an interpretive framework for examining issues that are critical for the future of the region and beyond. Contributors. Sonia E. Alvarez, Kiran Asher, Leonardo Avritzer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Andrea Cornwall, Graciela DiMarco, Arturo Escobar, Raphael Hoetmer, Benjamin Junge, Luis E. Lander, Agustin Lao-Montes, Margarita Lopez Maya, Jose Antonio Lucero, Graciela Monteagudo, Amalia Pallares, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Ana Claudia Teixeira, Millie Thayer

Bootstrapping Democracy - Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil (Hardcover): Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Patrick... Bootstrapping Democracy - Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil (Hardcover)
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Patrick Heller, Marcelo Silva
R2,363 Discovery Miles 23 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Deepening Democracy - Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance (Paperback): Archon Fung, Erik Olin Wright Deepening Democracy - Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance (Paperback)
Archon Fung, Erik Olin Wright; Contributions by Bradley C. Karkkainen, Craig W Thomas, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, …
R696 Discovery Miles 6 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The institutional forms of liberal democracy developed in the nineteenth century seem increasingly ill-suited to the problems we face in the twenty-first. This dilemma has given rise in some places to a new, deliberative democracy, and this volume explores four contemporary empirical cases in which the principles of such a democracy have been at least partially instituted: the participatory budget in Porto Alegre; the school decentralization councils and community policing councils in Chicago; stakeholder councils in environmental protection and habitat management; and new decentralised governance structures in Kerala. In keeping with the other Real Utopias Project volumes, these case studies are framed by an editors' introduction, a set of commentaries, and concluding notes.

Anything But Racism (Hardcover, New): Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Hayword Horton, Gianpaolo Baiocchi Anything But Racism (Hardcover, New)
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Hayword Horton, Gianpaolo Baiocchi
R1,197 R1,081 Discovery Miles 10 810 Save R116 (10%) Out of stock

Here the authors of this landmark book challenge the assumption that race is declining in its significance as indicator of economic, political and social conditions. "Anything But Racism" sets the record straight by providing a comprehensive approach to understanding race and research, including areas such as: social theory, survey research, ethnography, demography, statistics and finding results.

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