The Porto Alegre Alternative
Subtitle: Direct Democracy in Action (IIRE (International Institute for Resear)
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: November 2, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780745320977
Subjects: Local government policies; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Porto Alegre; Political Science; Latin America - General; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Brazil; Political participation; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Process - Elections; Political Science / Democracy; Economic conditions; Porto Alegre (Brazil); Citizen participation; Politics and government
First sentence: There is a contradiction at the heart of Porto Alegre's participatory budget.