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"Nylen has the courage to reopen the fundamental question of whether a workable democracy has to be remote, media-mediated experience, or whether there is a way to reestablish the old Greek notion of citizenship as participation." - Douglas Chalmers, Director, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University
"William Nylen's Participatory Democracy vs. Elitist Democracy: Lessons from Brazil is 'controversial' in the best tradition of the social sciences. Reminiscent of Tocqueville's classic Democracy in America, Nylen's study eschews the conventions of mainstream comparative politics to highlight surprising commonalities between democratic politics in Brazil, one of the world's most egregiously unequal societies with a deeply rooted legacy of authoritarianism, and the maladies of representative democracy and widespread civic disengagement in the contemporary United States. Passionately written and theoretically sophisticated, this examination of the complexities and realities of "participatory budgeting" in several of Brazil's cities governed by the Workers' Party advances many insights and lessons about the pathologies and cynicism of elite dominated politics everywhere, including our own country." - William C. Smith, University of Miami, Editor, Latin American Politics and Society
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Book Title: Participatory Democracy versus Elitist Democracy: Lessons from Brazil
Authors: William R. Nylen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403980304
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: William R. Nylen 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6306-2Published: 13 November 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-52728-1Published: 13 November 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-8030-4Published: 22 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 247
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Latin American Culture, Latin American Politics, Political Sociology, Political Science, Democracy, History of the Americas