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John D. Cameron
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
A better understanding of the differences between the ‘public performances’ and ‘backstage commentaries’ of poor and marginalized people in participatory budget schemes is important for both development practitioners and scholars. For practitioners, it is important to recognize that people may take part in participatory [...]

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Participatory democracy, Brazil-style, is running into problems
By Michael Fox
“Although the Workers’ Party lost control of the city government in 2004, Mayor Fogaça (who was re-elected last year under the centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement Party) promised to maintain the process.
On its 20th anniversary, this year’s assemblies had surprisingly high participation thanks to the federal “Minha Casa, [...]

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Josh Lerner (New School for Social Research)
Daniel Schugurensky (University of Toronto)
See article:
Rosario PB

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Benjamin Goldfrank – UNM/Political Science
Andrew Schrank – UNM/Sociology

See file here:
Urban Political Economy in Contemporary Latin America
 
 
 

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Mike Geddes
Valeria Guarneros-Meza
Local Governance: Cross National Trends and Research Issues

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Aaron Schneider
Crisis in the home of Participatory Budgeting

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Corinne Thatcher
http://participatorybudgeting.blogs.com/op/2007/01/pb_in_porto_ale.html
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Between Revolution and Transformism

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THE CASE OF PORTO ALEGRE

 
 
 
 
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OF PORTO ALEGRE
Launching Seminar of URBAL NETWORK No. 9
MUNICIPAL FINANCE AND PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING
BASE DOCUMENT
2004
Full document available: http://www2.portoalegre.rs.gov.br/urbal9_ing/

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The explosion of experience

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