The watering down of participatory budgeting and people power in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Author: Chavez, Daniel

Source: Participatory Learning and Action, Volume 58, Number 1, June 2008 , pp. 57-60(4)

Publisher: IIED - Participatory Learning and Action

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Abstract:

The Brazilian city of Porto Alegre pioneered the idea of participatory budgeting in the late 1980s. Its initial success has been followed by a wave of attempts to set up similar schemes across the world. With the watering down of this radical power-sharing system following the loss of power by the Workers Party in 2004, discussions about financial and political sustainability of such initiatives are now taking place under the banner of an emerging campaign called Popular Sovereignty.

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Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2008-06-01

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