TY - CHAP
T1 - Participative Institutions in Brazil
T2 - Mayors and the Expansion of Accountability in Comparative Perspective
AU - Wampler, Brian
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Citizens and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) play a more prominent role in Latin America's new democratic regimes than under previous democratic experiences. Efforts to promote transparency, accountability, and participation have led citizens, community organizations, social movements, and nongovernmental organizations to demand a more expansive role in decision-making venues. Brazil, Latin America's most populous and most decentralized democracy, has witnessed the proliferation of participatory institutions at the municipal level, granting citizens access to decision-making venues as well as the right to engage in oversight activities. Participatory institutions, such as participatory budgeting (PB), represent an effort to devolve and broaden decision-making venues with the potential to place a check on the prerogatives of mayors.
AB - Citizens and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) play a more prominent role in Latin America's new democratic regimes than under previous democratic experiences. Efforts to promote transparency, accountability, and participation have led citizens, community organizations, social movements, and nongovernmental organizations to demand a more expansive role in decision-making venues. Brazil, Latin America's most populous and most decentralized democracy, has witnessed the proliferation of participatory institutions at the municipal level, granting citizens access to decision-making venues as well as the right to engage in oversight activities. Participatory institutions, such as participatory budgeting (PB), represent an effort to devolve and broaden decision-making venues with the potential to place a check on the prerogatives of mayors.
UR - https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/polsci_facpubs/114
M3 - Chapter
T3 - CEDLA Latin America Studies
SP - 77
EP - 97
BT - Widening Democracy
A2 - Silva, Patricio
A2 - Cleuren, Herwig
PB - Brill Academic Publishers
ER -