Deepening Local Democracy in Latin America
Language: en
Pages: 190
Authors: Benjamin Goldfrank
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-10 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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The resurgence of the Left in Latin America over the past decade has been so notable that it has been called “the Pink Tide.” In recent years, regimes with
Barrio Democracy in Latin America
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Eduardo Canel
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-01 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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The transition to democracy underway in Latin America since the 1980s has recently witnessed a resurgence of interest in experimenting with new forms of local g
Inventing Local Democracy
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Rebecca Abers
Categories: Local government
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

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Abers (political science, Center for Public Policy Research, U. of Brasília, Brazil) provides a close study of innovative city government in Porto Alegre, Braz
Participatory Innovation and Representative Democracy in Latin America
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Andrew Selee
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09-21 - Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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This empirically grounded collection examines the growth of participatory institutions in Latin American democracy and how such institutions affect representati
Participatory Democracy versus Elitist Democracy: Lessons from Brazil
Language: en
Pages: 266
Authors: W. Nylen
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-22 - Publisher: Springer

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William Nylen begins by discussing North Americans' love-hate relationship with politics and politicians, then shows how Brazilians feel the same way (as do man