TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bruce,Iain
TI  - The Porto Alegre Alternative: Direct Democracy in Action
T2  - IIRE (International Institute for Research and Education) Series
SN  - 9781849644846
AV  - JS2425.P67 -- P666 2004eb 
U1  - 320.9/8165 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London
PB  - Pluto Press
KW  - Political participation -- Brazil -- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
KW  - Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) -- Politics and government -- Citizen participation
KW  - Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) -- Economic conditions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - First English-language guide to the new form of democractic government pioneered in Porto Alegre, Brazil
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3386526
ER  -