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The Porto Alegre Alternative : Direct Democracy in Action.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: IIRE (International Institute for Research and Education) SeriesPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (177 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781849644846
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Porto Alegre AlternativeDDC classification:
  • 320.9/8165
LOC classification:
  • JS2425.P67 -- P666 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- IIRE Notebooks for -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: From the PT to Porto Alegre -- Prologue: The View from Below -- Part I: The Participatory Budget- Origins, Aims and Ambiguities -- 1. Participatory Democracy - The Debate -- 2. From First Steps to Final Strategies -- Part II: How it Works -- 3. Basic Principles -- 4. Porto Alegre: The City Budget -- 5. The Participatory Budget in Two Other Cities -- 6. On a Bigger Scale: Rio Grande do Sul and Nationwide -- Part III: What it Means -- 7. Participatory Democracy and Local Power: The Experience of Porto Alegre -- 8. Theses on Local Government and the Struggle for Socialism -- 9. The Question of Democracy Today -- 10. PT Local Governments and Socialism -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: First English-language guide to the new form of democractic government pioneered in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- IIRE Notebooks for -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: From the PT to Porto Alegre -- Prologue: The View from Below -- Part I: The Participatory Budget- Origins, Aims and Ambiguities -- 1. Participatory Democracy - The Debate -- 2. From First Steps to Final Strategies -- Part II: How it Works -- 3. Basic Principles -- 4. Porto Alegre: The City Budget -- 5. The Participatory Budget in Two Other Cities -- 6. On a Bigger Scale: Rio Grande do Sul and Nationwide -- Part III: What it Means -- 7. Participatory Democracy and Local Power: The Experience of Porto Alegre -- 8. Theses on Local Government and the Struggle for Socialism -- 9. The Question of Democracy Today -- 10. PT Local Governments and Socialism -- Notes -- Index.

First English-language guide to the new form of democractic government pioneered in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

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