Participatory budgeting in Brazil
Subtitle: contestation, cooperation, and accountability
By: Brian Wampler.
Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780271032528
Subjects: Municipal budgets -- Brazil; Municipal government -- Brazil; Political participation -- Brazil; Democracy -- Brazil
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Extending citizenship and accountability through participatory budgeting; title: Participatory budgeting: rules of the game; title: Authority, negotiation, and solidarity: PB delegates: attitudes and behaviors; title: Porto Alegre and Ipatinga: the successful delegation of authority and the use of contentious politics (among friends); title: Blumenau and Rio Claro: weak mayoral support and the absence of contentious politics; title: São Paulo and Santo André: co-optation, limited delegation, and signaling; title: Belo Horizonte and Recife: contentious politics and mayoral shifts; title: Deepening democracy through the expansion of citizenship rights and accountability.