Participatory Innovation and Representative Democracy in Latin America

by Andrew Selee

This empirically grounded collection examines the growth of participatory institutions in Latin American democracy and how such institutions affect representative government. While most existing literature concentrates on model cases of participatory budgeting in Brazil, this volume investigates cases in Mexico, Bolivia, Chile, Brazil, and Argentina, where conditions for innovation have been far less favorable. The contributors, while recognizing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801894077
• ISBN13: 9780801894077
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"