Activating Democracy in Brazil - Popular Participation, Social Justice, and Interlocking Institutions

Informationen zum Autor Brian Wampler is professor of political science at Boise State University. He is the author of Participatory Budgeting in Brazil: Contestation, Cooperation, and Accountability . Klappentext Activating Democracy in Brazil examines Brazil's participatory citizenship regime and the rise of democratic institutions in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, which has transformed the way Brazilians work together politically. Zusammenfassung Examines how the proliferation of democratic institutions in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, has transformed the way in which citizens, CSOs, and political parties work together to change the existing state. By focusing on multiple democratic institutions over a twenty-year period, this book illustrates how the participatory citizenship regime generates political and social change.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Wampler
• Publisher: University Of Notre Dame Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2015
• EAN: 9780268044305
• ISBN: 978-0-268-04430-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Helen Kellogg Institute for In; Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development; Kellogg Institute Democracy an
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education