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eBook Curso à Distância Clacso-Pled, TNI e Cidade

DEMOCRACIA PARTICIPATIVA, GESTÃO URBANA E CAPITALISMO DE CRISE   – Gabriela Salvarrey, Felipe Drago e Márcia Tolfo (editores): Este e-book é resultado de um curso à distância sobre democracia participativa, gestão urbana e capitalismo de crise, ocorrido entre fins de 2012 e meados de 2013. Em si, o curso teve especial ênfase nos caminhos populares […]

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A mãe de todas as reformas?

Por Adriano Codato: Seja lá qual for o “recado das ruas”, as jornadas de junho no Brasil correm o risco de terminarem numa retumbante decepção. A falta de modulação entre as demandas anunciadas nos cartazes dos manifestantes e a resposta que o mundo político deu a elas não poderia ser mais completa. Cidadãos exigiram melhor […]

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Cooperativización: algunas aproximaciones a las relaciones actuales entre Estado capitalista y sectores subalternos

Por Mariana Giaretto: “El análisis de las relaciones entre Estado y clases subalternas a partir de experiencias concretas de tomas de tierras urbanas nos ha permitido identificar a la cooperativización como un proceso en el que se entrelazan complejamente tanto mecanismos estatales de dispersión del conflicto social como estrategias de subsistencia de los sectores populares.” […]

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Associations, Deliberation, and Democracy: The Case of Ireland’s Social Partnership

By Niamh Gaynor: [Excerpt] (…) [D]oes civic associational engagement at micro levels leave scope to engage laterally across associations and vertically with members and citizens thereby sustaining a vibrant, active public sphere? Is civic associational engagement within micro-policy fora “good” for democracy in a substantive sense? The answer to this has to be a qualified […]

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Participatory Decision Making: A Field Experiment on Manipulating the Votes

By Paolo Spada and James Raymond Vreeland: Many believe that deliberative democracy, where individuals discuss alternatives before voting on them, should result in collectively superior outcomes because voters become better informed and decisions are justified using reason. These deliberations typically involve a moderator, however, whose role has been under-examined. We conduct a field experiment to […]

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Deliberating Democracy: Scenes from a Brazilian Municipal Health Council

By Andrea Cornwall: [excerpt] What this case suggests is that deliberative democratic theory might usefully pay closer attention to contention and contestation as attributes of a deliberative process that strengthen, rather than threaten, its democratic potential. Spaces of “empowered participatory governance” like the conselho are not just neutral management spaces, they are inherently political spaces: […]

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Civil Society and State-Building in Latin America

By Rebecca Abers and Margareth Keck: In this essay we will suggest that significant barriers to deepening democracy in much of Latin America include not just the weakness of civil society vis-à-vis the state, but also the weakness of the state itself vis-à-vis its public administrative, technical, and enforcement functions. This is not a recent […]

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Las Alas de Leo: La participación ciudadana del siglo XX

By Pedro Prieto Martín: [excerpt] La sostenibilidad es también un aspecto vital de la participación ciudadana. La existencia de lo que en el apartado II.6.2 denominamos como el “monopolio político-administrativo de la participación” da cuenta de lo difícil que resulta desarrollar fórmulas de participación autónoma que sean realmente auto-sostenibles. Nuestro análisis del OP nos ha mostrado, […]

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Participatory Budgeting and the Radical Imagination: In Europe but not in Canada?

By Terry Maley, Abstract: Participatory budgets are recent interventions that have sought to counter neoliberalism in the global south and north. I critically assess the claim that they constitute new democratic spaces in which marginal and poor citizens create practices of self-government based on principles of social justice and democratic deliberation. Tracing the migration of […]

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De la critique du travail à l’abolition de la société marchande

Exposé de Norbert Trenkle (groupe Krisis), juin 2003: (…) La difficulté fondamentale d’un mouvement d’émancipation sociale réside dans le fait qu’il doit se former contre la logique objectivée de destruction et d’anéantissement de la crise fondamentale de la production marchande et du travail. C’est une situation historique fondamentalement différente de celle dans laquelle le plus grand mouvement social […]

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Patronage Politics and Contentious Collective Action: A Recursive Relationship

By Javier Auyero, Pablo Lapegna and Fernanda Page Poma: “Since the early 1990s, much of Latin America has witnessed the simultaneous growth of both protest and clientelism (Svampa and Pereyra 2003; Giarracca 2001; Giraudy 2007; Levitsky 2003; Stokes 2005; Auyero 2007; Almeida and Johnston 2006; Shefner et al. 2006; López-Maya and Lander 2006), a twin […]

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A New Vision for the Summit of the Americas

By Jeffrey W. Rubin and Emma Sokoloff-Rubin “Today, once again, the idea of equitable development doesn’t seem radical, but rather makes common sense. And the potential for a hemispheric alliance is stronger than ever. Democracies in Latin America have already produced innovative strategies for tackling tough problems, from racial exclusion to urban poverty to migration, […]

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Participative Democracy: Community Participation or Technocratic Elitism

By Richard Nash, (University of the Sunshine Coast – Paper presented to the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference University of Tasmania, Hobart, 29 September – 1 October 2003) Abstract: Discussions on natural resource management promote the idea of community participation as a central mechanism for collaborative politics, participatory democracy and sustainable development. The employment of […]

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Lost for Words?

Goetz Ottmann Lost for words? : Brazilian liberationism in the 1990s Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002

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Power to which people?

Stephen Kingston Red Pepper, October/November 2007. Read it at http://www.redpepper.org.uk/article549.html The government is promising ’devolution right to the doorstep’ as a means of reinvigorating local democracy. A pilot participatory budget making project, whereby people can ’have a direct say’ in how their taxes are spent, has been running in Salford. Stephen Kingston questions its democratic […]

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