Over the past thirty-five years the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST), one of the
largest social movements in Latin America, has become famous globally for its success in …

In Brazil, a country notorious for its spatially segregated, unequal cities, a 2001 federal law
recognizes the “right to the city” and mandates participation in planning processes, aiming to …

During Brazil's transition to democracy during the 1980s and early 1990s, municipal
governments and civil society activists created an innovative democratic institution …

Vulnerability, understood as the propensity to be adversely affected, has attained
importance in the context of climate change by helping to understand what makes …

Summary Since democratization, Latin America has experienced a surge in new forms of
citizen participation. Yet there is still little comparative knowledge on these so-called …

Representative democracy is in crisis. One remedy is to foster citizen participation beyond
elections. This has led to the development of democratic innovations such as participatory …

In June 2013, Brazil's cities hit the headlines. Starting in São Paulo, and followed by other
urban centres, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in waves of protests that …

People are increasingly unhappy with their governments in democracies around the world.
In countries as diverse as India, Ecuador, and Uganda, governments are responding to …

Despite considerable literature exploring Brazil's participatory management, less academic
attention focuses on Brazil's public policy councils (conselhos gestores de políticas …

Because of its early positive assessments, participatory budgeting (PB) has been and
continues to be praised by several policymakers, and the Brazilian model has become an …