Participatory Innovation and Representative Democracy in Latin America
Edited by
Andrew D. Selee
and
Enrique Peruzzotti
Copub.: Johns Hopkins University Press
A Book Launch Event for Participatory Innovations and Democratic Democracy in Latin America will held on October 9, from 9 - 10:30 at the Wilson Center.
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 the important differences and potential clashes between participatory and representative forms of democracy, ultimately favor participation, emphasizing its capacity to enhance and strengthen representative democracy.
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Andrew D. Selee is director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute.
More Information about Andrew D.
Selee can be found here.
Enrique Peruzzotti is a professor of political science at Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires and was a fellow at the Wilson Center in 2003–2004.
More Information about Enrique
Peruzzotti can be found here.
Comments on this book
"The sophisticated yet accessible conceptual framework is excellent, transcending widely held assumptions about the dichotomy between participatory and representative democracy. And in an area where most works focus specifically on one city, or one country, the cross—national comparative approach stands out as distinctive. This book is clearly a significant contribution." -- Jonathan Fox, University of California, Santa Cruz
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