Widening Democracy: Citizens and Participatory Schemes in Brazil and Chile

Patricio Silva, Ph.D. (1987) in Political Science, Leiden University, is Professor of Modern Latin American History at Leiden University and Director of the Department of Latin American Studies. He has published extensively on the technocratic phenomenon in Latin America including In the Name of Reason: Technocrats and Politics in Chile (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008).Herwig Cleuren, Ph.D. (2001) in Sociology of Development, Leiden University, has been Assistant Professor of Modern Latin American Studies at Leiden University. He is the author of several publications on participatory democracy in Brazil and Chile, including ‘Local Democracy and Participation in Post-Authoritarian Chile’ (European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2007).

"Widening Democracy: Citizens and Participatory Schemes in Brazil and Chile is an excellent attempt to put together the debates on democratization and participation through a comparative perspective. Though there are other books on participatory budgeting today, none of them binds in such an original way the debates on political tradition before the period of authoritarianism, types of transition, and the role of civil society in the transition and the different processes of constitution making. The reader of the book will greatly enrich his/her conception about the construction of democracy in Latin America." - Leonardo Avritzer, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgements1. Assessing Participatory Democracy in Brazil and Chile: An Introduction, Patricio Silva and Herwig CleurenCOMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES2. Grassroots Movements and Political Activism in Chile and Brazil, Joe Foweraker3. Local Democracy and Popular Participation in Chile and Brazil, Paul W. PosnerTHE CASE OF BRAZIL: PARTICIPATION FROM BELOW4. Participative Institutions in Brazil: Mayors and the Expansion of Accountability in Comparative Perspective, Brian Wampler5. The Redistributive Effects of the Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre, Adalmir Marquetti6. Politicizing the Civic: Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre, Gianpaolo Baiocchi7. State-Society Synergy and the Problems of Participation in Porto Alegre, Rebecca N. Abers8. Assessing the Claims of Proponents and Critics of the Participatory Budget: Lessons from Minas Gerais, Brazil, William R. Nylen9. Surviving Regime Change?: Participatory Democracy and the Politics of Citizenship in Porto Alegre, Kees KooningsTHE CASE OF CHILE: CONSULTATION FROM ABOVE10. Civic Deliberation and Participatory Budgeting: The case of San Joaquín, Santiago de Chile, Adolfo Castillo Díaz11. Participation and Mestizaje of State-Civil Society in Chile, Gonzalo de la Maza12. Citizens’ Involvement and Social Policies in Chile: Patronage or Participation? Vicente Espinoza13. Old Habits in New Clothes, or Clientelism, Patronage and the Unión Demócrata Independiente, Marcus Klein14. Top-Down and Bottom-Up Democracy in Chile under Bachelet, Patricio NaviaBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex