The politics of deepening local democracy: Decentralization, party institutionalization, and participation

Comparative Politics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Goldfrank, Benjamin ^a  

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5. Except where noted, references to Caracas indicate Libertador municipality, containing the city's center and known as Caracas City Hall. Data, gathered during fifteen months of fieldwork, include 145 interviews with government and party officials, opposition leaders, and community leaders, surveys in Montevideo and Porto Alegre, observations from 100-plus meetings, government documents, and media reports.
6. Cabannes, p. 27.
7. Participatory institutions contributed to FA popularity. Its first Montevideo mayor eventually won Uruguay's presidency in 2004.
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15. See, also, Kenneth Roberts, Deepening Democracy? The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru (Stanford: Stanford University, 1998);
16. Kurt von Mettenheim and James Malloy, eds., Deepening Democracy in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998).
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28. Ackerman, p. 459; Wampler and Avritzer.
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30. Schönwälder; Wampler and Avritzer, p. 291; Abers, pp. 28, 105.
31. Evans, "Government Action," p. 1126.
32. Abers, pp. 220-21, ch. 4.
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34. Fung and Wright, pp. 17-24.
35. Roberts.
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44. Benjamin Goldfrank, "Urban Experiments in Citizen Participation" (Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 2002), p. 75, Table 2.6.
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52. Goldfrank, p. 91.
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57. Steven Levitsky, Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2003); Scott Mainwaring and Timothy Scully, eds., Building Democratic Institutions (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995).
58. Michael Coppedge, Strong Parties and Lame Ducks (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994).
59. Ibid., p. 29.
60. Interview, Elías Santana, FACUR president, 1988-1989, December 23, 1999; Eilner, p. 82.
61. Silvana Bruera, "Apuntes Para una Evaluación del Proceso de Descentralización desde las Comisiones Vecinales," in CIEDUR-CIESU-ICP-FESUR, Participatión ciudadana y reladones de gohierno (Montevideo: Trilce, 1993), p. 49.
62. Gerónimo de Sierra and Bianca Charbonnier, " Descentralización y Participación," in CIEDUR-CIESU-ICP- FESUR, pp. 18-19, 28, En 9-10.
63. Interview, Sebastião Mello, municipal PMDB President, May 4, 1999.
64. Interview, Cesar Pureza, union President, 1995-1999, May 20, 1999.
65. Comisión Permanente de Participación Ciudadana, Experiencia de Gobiernos Parroquialea en el Municipio Libertador (Caracas: Alcaldía de Caracas, 1994), Table 1.
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68. Goldfrank, pp. 300-7; Baiocchi, "Synergizing," Table 3; Porto Alegre municipal records.
69. Abers, pp. 161-66; Baiocchi, "Synergizing," pp. 49, 83.
70. Orlando dos Santos, "Gestão Urbana, Associativismo e Participação nas Metrópoles Brasileiras," in Luiz de Queiroz Ribeiro, ed., O Futuro dos Metrópoles (Rio de Janeiro: Revan-FASE, 2000).
71. Portillo; Chavez and Goldfrank, eds.; Abers; Sousa Santos.
72. Goldfrank, pp. 278-81.
73. Interview, Felizberto, December 3, 1998.
74. Mettenheim and Malloy.