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Bootstrapping Democracy
Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participation's real impact. This book investigates participatory budgeting—a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs—to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society. Looking closely at eight cities in Brazil, comparing those that carried out participatory budgeting reforms between 1997 and 2000 with those that did not, the authors examine whether and how institutional reforms take effect. Bootstrapping Democracy highlights the importance of local-level innovations and democratic advances, charting a middle path between those who theorize that globalization hollows out democracy and those who celebrate globalization as a means of fostering democratic values. Uncovering the state's role in creating an "associational environment," it reveals the contradictory ways institutional reforms shape the democratic capabilities of civil society and how outcomes are conditioned by relations between the state and civil society.
Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Social Justice
Using understandable and interesting case studies, Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Social Justice analyzes the impact of neoliberal globalization on governance and explores the new forms of participatory democracy that have emerged from the global justice movement.
Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries
Over the past three decades the developing world has seen increasing devolution of political and economic power to local governments. Decentralization is considered an important element of participatory democracy and, along with privatization and deregulation, represents a substantial reduction in the authority of national governments over economic policy. The contributors to Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries examine this institutional transformation from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives, offering detailed case studies of decentralization in eight countries: Bolivia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, South Africa, and Uganda. Some of these c...
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Políticas e gestão da educação
A leitura da obra que ora se apresenta é de fundamental importância para pesquisadores, docentes, estudantes – da graduação e pós-graduação – gestores e leigos interessados em aprofundar o conhecimento no campo dos estudos da educação escolar, com ênfase em temáticas que recobrem as relações entre Estado e sociedade, as políticas públicas, a gestão e avaliação educacionais, a democratização do direito social à escolarização e os modos como entre nós vêm sendo praticadas as relações entre democracia representativa e a participação ativa, a republicanização ou privatização do Estado na esfera da educação. -- Elmir de Almeida (Coordenador do Programa de Pós-Graduação , em Educação da FFCLRP/USP)
