Widening Democracy: Citizens and Participatory Schemes in Brazil and Chile

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List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements 1. Assessing Participatory Democracy in Brazil and Chile: An Introduction, Patricio Silva and Herwig Cleuren COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES 2. Grassroots Movements and Political Activism in Chile and Brazil, Joe Foweraker 3. Local Democracy and Popular Participation in Chile and Brazil, Paul W. Posner THE CASE OF BRAZIL: PARTICIPATION FROM BELOW 4. Participative Institutions in Brazil: Mayors and the Expansion of Accountability in Comparative Perspective, Brian Wampler 5. The Redistributive Effects of the Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre, Adalmir Marquetti 6. Politicizing the Civic: Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre, Gianpaolo Baiocchi 7. State-Society Synergy and the Problems of Participation in Porto Alegre, Rebecca N. Abers 8. Assessing the Claims of Proponents and Critics of the Participatory Budget: Lessons from Minas Gerais, Brazil, William R. Nylen 9. Surviving Regime Change?: Participatory Democracy and the Politics of Citizenship in Porto Alegre, Kees Koonings THE CASE OF CHILE: CONSULTATION FROM ABOVE 10. Civic Deliberation and Participatory Budgeting: The case of San Joaquin, Santiago de Chile, Adolfo Castillo Diaz 11. Participation and Mestizaje of State-Civil Society in Chile, Gonzalo de la Maza 12. Citizens' Involvement and Social Policies in Chile: Patronage or Participation? Vicente Espinoza 13. Old Habits in New Clothes, or Clientelism, Patronage and the Union Democrata Independiente, Marcus Klein 14. Top-Down and Bottom-Up Democracy in Chile under Bachelet, Patricio Navia Bibliography List of Contributors Index