Participatory budgeting in Brazilian cities: limits and possibilities in building democratic institutions

Souza, Celina

doi:10.1630/095624701101285540

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“…Even though the origins of local level participative experiences can be traced to the military dictatorship period (Souza 2001), the increase in participatory institutions and processes was a result of the state decentralization of the 1990s and the growth in the number of municipal leftist governments (Avritzer 2009). After years of debate, local 90…”

Section: New Participatory Institutions and Processesmentioning

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Local politics in Brazil: how social movements have made a difference

Lévy

2013

Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revu

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Since the late 1980s Brazilian local politics has been the site of political innovations and new democratic processes. One particularity of local politics in Brazil is the active involvement of social movements in the contestation of public social goods and services for the low income classes and their assertion of a political identity. This paper analyses urban and rural movements involved in local politics and how they have contributed to democratization and social change in Brazil at the municipal level. It asserts that social movements are influential in local politics, especially concerning municipal policies and processes to improve democratic participation.Desde do final de 1980, as inovaçoes e novos processos democraticos no Brasil surgiram da esfera politica municipal. Uma das particularidades dessa politica local é a implicaçao ativa dos movimentos sociais contestando serviços publicos para a populaçao de baixa renda e a afirmaçao de sua identidade politica. Nosso artigo analisa o envolvimento dos movimentos sociais na politica local e sua contribuiçao para a democratizaçao do espaço politico e para as transformaçoes ocorridas no Brasil no nivel municipal. A nossa hipotese é que os movimentos sociais influenciam na esfera politica local, principalmente na implementaçao de politicas publicas e na melhoria do processo de participaçao politica do regime democratico.

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Local politics in Brazil: how social movements have made a difference

Lévy

2013

Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revu

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“…It pulls together and updates earlier versions of three articles published in English, Portuguese and Spanish. See Souza (2001Souza ( , 2004Souza ( , 2006.…”

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“…4 PB is the object of several articles published in English, particularly the Porto Alegre experience. See, among others,Navarro (1997),Abers (1998),Santos (1998),Abers (2000),Nylen (2000a, b),Wampler (2000),Biocchi (2001),Fung and Wright (2001),Souza (2001).…”

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Local Democratization in Brazil: Strengths and dilemmas of deliberative democracy

Souza¹

2007

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Celina Souza analyzes two Brazilian mechanisms designed to improve local deliberative democracy: participatory budgeting and community councils. She addresses two questions: how these experiences are being implemented and how sustainably. She argues that despite the uneven capability of local governments to empower ordinary citizens, some progress has been made towards local deliberative democracy, although the sustainability of these experiences is not yet clear. Development (2007) 50, 90–95. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100338

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“…One such problem is participatory budgeting; traditionally this issue has been managed through a mix of direct and representative participation (Souza 2001). A well-known and successful example is participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre (Santos 1998).…”

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Towards decision support for participatory democracy

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In many parts of the world there is growing demand for participation in public policy decision making. This demand could be satisfied by the design and deployment of Web-based group decision support systems to aid large groups of, possibly unsophisticated, users in participating in such decisions. After describing several mechanisms for participatory democracy, we provide a framework for decision support in this area and describe decision support functions that could be implemented in such a framework. We illustrate the ideas with a specific system to support participatory budget elaboration through the Web. Several practical issues are discussed along the way.

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Participatory budgeting in Brazilian cities: limits and possibilities in building democratic institutions

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Local politics in Brazil: how social movements have made a difference

Local politics in Brazil: how social movements have made a difference

Local Democratization in Brazil: Strengths and dilemmas of deliberative democracy

Towards decision support for participatory democracy

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