With its experiment in participative budget-making over the past decade, Porto Alegre has institutionalized the direct democratic involvement, locality by locality, of ordinary citizens in deciding spending priorities. This book examines how this democratic innovation works in practice and asks the difficult questions. Can local participation in public management really strengthen its efficiency? Is genuine participation possible without small groups monopolizing power? Can local organizations avoid becoming bureaucratized and cut off from their roots? Can neighborhood mobilization go...
With its experiment in participative budget-making over the past decade, Porto Alegre has institutionalized the direct democratic involvement, loca...
Ce travail porte sur la politique publique de participation citoyenne dans deux villes latino-amA(c)ricaines: Rosario en Argentine et Porto Alegre au BrA(c)sil. AprA]s avoir dA(c)terminA(c) un faisceau de causes qui ont conduit ces villes A inscrire la participation sur leur agenda politique, la recherche montre la diversitA(c) des mises en oeuvre possibles et quelques-une de leurs consA(c)quences sur l'articulation des relations entre A0/00tat et sociA(c)tA(c) civile. La comparaison entre Argentine et BrA(c)sil met en A(c)vidence des divergences radicales entre ces deux pays fA(c)dA(c)raux....
Ce travail porte sur la politique publique de participation citoyenne dans deux villes latino-amA(c)ricaines: Rosario en Argentine et Porto Alegre au ...