Abstract Development theory has moved from a single-minded focus on capital
accumulation toward a more complex understanding of the institutions that make …

3 The CR (in Ciudad Guayana) and the FA both started their participation programs in 1990,
having been elected in 1989. For a comparison of the two Venezuelan cases, see López …

A Brookings Institution Press and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
publication Participatory Budgeting—the experiment in democracy that could redefine how …

Radicals in Power provides a rich and systematic account of the innovative redistributive
democracy policies introduced in Brazil over the past 20 years by the Workers Party of Brazil …

A teoria econômica moderna foi além do" fundamentalismo do capital". Nas palavras de
Hoff e Stiglitz (2001, p. 389)," o desenvolvimento não é mais visto primariamente como um …

DEVELOPMENT THEORY IS READY for new departures. Economic analysis of
development has taken an" institutional turn." Setting out the opportunities and challenges …

In Communes and Workers' Control in Venezuela: Building 21st Century Socialism from
Below, Dario Azzellini offers an account of the Bolivarian Revolution from below. While …

In contrast to more pessimistic studies, the authors find evidence that civic participation in
one domain of public life can lead to more participation elsewhere, what they call spillover …

To what extent does participation in one particular domain of public life lead to wider
participation in other areas? Through the use of an unprecedented survey supported by …

In this paper I discuss the impact of participatory reforms to municipal governance on local
civil society in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Carried out by administrators of the Worker's Party (PT) …