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- catalog abstract ""Radicals in power provides a comparative account of the innovative policies at state level, and in big and medium-sized cities, which the PT has introduced over the past 20 years. Based on original field investigation, it is written by scholars and those who have been actual participants in the process. This book provides a unique body of information and understanding of the ways in which a non-dogmatic, left-wing political movement has instituted a highly innovative set of experiments (the most famous example being Porto Alegre) to involve ordinary citizens, especially the socially disadvantaged, in the local policy choices and fiscal allocation decisions which affect their lives, as well as a variety of other experiments to achieve both participation and social redistribution and justice." "The obstacles are many, as this book makes clear, and there have been both failures and electoral setbacks. But at a time when conventional representative democratic institutions command less and less enthusiasm (as seen in declining voter turnouts in most countries), the PT's innovative experiments with new forms of participatory decision-making have a potentially huge significance for the renewal of the substance of democratic government worldwide. Here is a left-oriented, but nondogmatic, political movement, now in power nationally, refusing simply to try to manage humanely a neoliberal, market-dominated economy, but instead experimenting with imaginative new ways of achieving redistribution and social justice in a non-revolutionary manner. Little wonder that political parties and city administrations elsewhere in Latin America and further afield are flocking to Brazil to learn from these extraordinarily important experiments."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12923953.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Radicals in power provides a comparative account of the innovative policies at state level, and in big and medium-sized cities, which the PT has introduced over the past 20 years. Based on original field investigation, it is written by scholars and those who have been actual participants in the process. This book provides a unique body of information and understanding of the ways in which a non-dogmatic, left-wing political movement has instituted a highly innovative set of experiments (the most famous example being Porto Alegre) to involve ordinary citizens, especially the socially disadvantaged, in the local policy choices and fiscal allocation decisions which affect their lives, as well as a variety of other experiments to achieve both participation and social redistribution and justice." "The obstacles are many, as this book makes clear, and there have been both failures and electoral setbacks. But at a time when conventional representative democratic institutions command less and less enthusiasm (as seen in declining voter turnouts in most countries), the PT's innovative experiments with new forms of participatory decision-making have a potentially huge significance for the renewal of the substance of democratic government worldwide. Here is a left-oriented, but nondogmatic, political movement, now in power nationally, refusing simply to try to manage humanely a neoliberal, market-dominated economy, but instead experimenting with imaginative new ways of achieving redistribution and social justice in a non-revolutionary manner. Little wonder that political parties and city administrations elsewhere in Latin America and further afield are flocking to Brazil to learn from these extraordinarily important experiments."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-245) and index.".
- catalog description "Radicals in power / Gianpaolo Baiocchi -- Making participation work in Porto Alegre / Benjamin Goldfrank -- Faith in what will change : the PT administration in Belém / John A. Guidry, Pere Petit -- The second time around : Marta Suplicy's PT administration in São Paulo / Claudio Goncalves Couto -- An enduring legacy? Popular participation in the aftermath of the participatory budgets of João Monlevade and Betim / William R. Nylen -- Participation by design : the experiences of Alvorada and Gravataí, Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil / Marcelo Kunrath Silva -- PT never again? Failure (and success) in the PT's state government in Espírito Santo and the Federal District / Fiona Macaulay, Guy Burton -- Restraining the revolution or deepening democracy? The Workers' Party in Rio Grande do Sul / Benjamin Goldfrank, Aaron Schneider -- The purple in the rainbow : gender politics in the PT / Fiona Macaulay -- The dilemmas and limits of transformation : a commentary / Rachel Meneguello -- The long march through institutions : lessons from the PT in power / Gianpaolo Baiocchi.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 254 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Radicals in power.".
- catalog identifier "1842771728 (cased)".
- catalog identifier "1842771736 (limp)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Radicals in power.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave,".
- catalog relation "Radicals in power.".
- catalog spatial "Brazil.".
- catalog subject "324.281/074 21".
- catalog subject "JL2498.T7 R33 2003".
- catalog subject "Local government Brazil.".
- catalog subject "Partido dos Trabalhadores (Brazil)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Radicals in power / Gianpaolo Baiocchi -- Making participation work in Porto Alegre / Benjamin Goldfrank -- Faith in what will change : the PT administration in Belém / John A. Guidry, Pere Petit -- The second time around : Marta Suplicy's PT administration in São Paulo / Claudio Goncalves Couto -- An enduring legacy? Popular participation in the aftermath of the participatory budgets of João Monlevade and Betim / William R. Nylen -- Participation by design : the experiences of Alvorada and Gravataí, Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil / Marcelo Kunrath Silva -- PT never again? Failure (and success) in the PT's state government in Espírito Santo and the Federal District / Fiona Macaulay, Guy Burton -- Restraining the revolution or deepening democracy? The Workers' Party in Rio Grande do Sul / Benjamin Goldfrank, Aaron Schneider -- The purple in the rainbow : gender politics in the PT / Fiona Macaulay -- The dilemmas and limits of transformation : a commentary / Rachel Meneguello -- The long march through institutions : lessons from the PT in power / Gianpaolo Baiocchi.".
- catalog title "Radicals in power : the Workers' Party (PT) and experiments in urban democracy in Brazil / edited by Gianpaolo Baiocchi.".
- catalog type "text".