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Citizens' Power in Latin America: Theory and Practice

Citizens' Power in Latin America: Theory and Practice

Lupien, Pascal

Paperback

General Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1438469187
ISBN13: 9781438469188
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 2 2019
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Examines why some democratic innovations succeed while others fail, using Venezuela, Ecuador, and Chile as case studies.

Citizens' Power in Latin America takes the reader into the heart of communities where average citizens are attempting to build a new democratic model to improve their socioeconomic conditions and to have a voice in decisions that affect their lives. Based on groundbreaking fieldwork conducted in Venezuela, Ecuador, and Chile, Pascal Lupien contrasts two models of participatory design that have emerged in Latin America and identifies the factors that enhance or diminish the capacity of these mechanisms to produce positive outcomes. He draws on lived experiences of citizen participants to reveal the potential and the dangers of participatory democracy. Why do some democratic innovations appear to succeed while others fail? To what extent do these institutions really empower citizens, and in what ways can they be used by governments to control participation? What lessons can be learned from these experiments? Given the growing dissatisfaction with existing democratic systems across the world, this book will be of interest to people seeking innovative ways of deepening democracy.

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