Participatory Innovation and Representative Democracy in Latin America
This empirically grounded collection examines the growth of participatory institutions in Latin American democracy and how such institutions affect representative government. While most existing literature concentrates on model cases of participatory budgeting in Brazil, this volume investigates cases in Mexico, Bolivia, Chile, Brazil, and Argentina, where conditions for innovation have been far less favorable. The contributors, while recognizing the important differences and potential clashes between participatory and representative forms of democracy, ultimately favor participation, emphasizing its capacity to enhance and strengthen representative democracy.
"The sophisticated yet accessible conceptual framework is excellent, transcending widely held assumptions about the dichotomy between participatory and representative democracy. And in an area where most works focus specifically on one city, or one country, the cross—national comparative approach stands out as distinctive. This book is clearly a significant contribution." -- Jonathan Fox, University of California, Santa Cruz
Andrew D. Selee is director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute. Enrique Peruzzotti is a professor of political science at Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires and was a fellow at the Wilson Center in 2003–2004. The contributions to this book grew out of a two—year study featuring two central workshops in Washington, D.C., as well as a series of seminars held in the home countries of key participants.Related Books:
Promoting Democracy in the Americas
edited by Thomas Legler, Sharon F. Lean, and Dexter S. Boniface
Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America, third edition
edited by Jorge I. Domínguez and Michael Shifter
Latin America's Struggle for Democracy
edited by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, and Diego Abente Brun
Participatory Institutions in Democratic Brazil
Leonardo Avritzer
