Participatory democracy innovations aimed at bringing citizens back into local governance processes are now at the core of the international democratic developm

The transition to democracy underway in Latin America since the 1980s has recently witnessed a resurgence of interest in experimenting with new forms of local g

The resurgence of the Left in Latin America over the past decade has been so notable that it has been called “the Pink Tide.” In recent years, regimes with

This empirically grounded collection examines the growth of participatory institutions in Latin American democracy and how such institutions affect representati

Brazil’s democracy has frequently been described as unconsolidated, its citizens as apathetic and uninterested in politics. But in Porto Alegre, a host city to