Do participatory governance institutions matter? Municipal councils and social housing programs in Brazil

Comparative Politics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-102

  Donaghy, Maureen M ^a  

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EID: 82955233915     PISSN: 00104159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5129/001041510X13815229366606     Document Type: Article

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1. See, for example, The World Bank, The World Bank Participation Sourcebook (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2006).
2. See, for example, The World Bank, World Development Report: Making Services Work for Poor People (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2004);
3. and Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright, Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance (New York: Verso Publishing, 2003).
4. Though, see Brian Wampler, Participatory Budgeting in Brazil: Contestation, Cooperation, and Accountability (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007);
5. and Krister Andersson and Frank van Laerhoven, "From Local Strongman to Facilitator: Institutional Incentives for Participatory Municipal Governance in Latin America," Comparative Political Studies, 40 (September 2007): 1085-1111.
6. Ministério das Cidades, "Política Nacional de Habitação," 2004, http://www.cidades.gov.br/ secretarias-nacionais/secretaria-de-habitacao/politica-nacional-de-habitacao.
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8. Lavínia Pessanha, Vanessa Campagnac, and Denise Ferreira Matos, "Panorama Brasileiro dos Conselhos Municipais de Políticas Setoriais," Presented at the 30th Encontro Nacional da ANPOCS, Caxambu, Brazil, 2006.
9. Vera R Schatten Coelho, Barbara Pozzoni, and Mariana Cifuentes, "Participation and Public Policies in Brazil," in John Gastil and Peter Levine, eds., The Deliberative Democracy Handbook: Strategies for Effective Citizen Engagement in the Twenty-First Century (New York: Jossey-Bass, Inc, 2005).
10. Patricia Gomes, "Conselho Municipal de Habitação: Uma Experiência de Participação Popular na Cidade de Goiânia Macedo," Conference Paper delivered to the Conference on Social Movements, Participation, and Democracy, UFSC, Florianopolis, Brazil, 2007.
11. Renato Cymbalista, Paula Freire Santoro, Luciana Tatagiba, and Ana Cláudia Chaves Teixeira, Habitação: controle social e política pública (São Paulo: Instituto Polis, 2007).
12. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), "Pesquisa de Informações Básicas Municipais: Perfil dos Municípios Brasileiros, Gestão Publica (MUNIC)," 2005 and 2008, http://www.ibge.gov.br/.
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16. For example, the União Nacional dos Movimentos da Moradia Popular, and Rede Jubileu Sul Brasil, "Assembleia Popular: Mutirão por um novo Brasil" (São Paulo: Expressão Popular, 2006).
17. Michel Duquette, Maurilio Galdino, Charmain Levy, Berengere Marques-Pereira, and Florence Raes, Collective Action and Radicalism in Brazil: Women, Urban Housing, and Rural Movements (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005).
18. This argument draws on decentralization literature, in which scholars find that decentralization of responsibilities and resources to local officials often leads to improved responsiveness and accountability of local governments to citizens' concerns. See, for example, The World Bank, The World Bank Participation Sourcebook (Washington, DC: Wbrld Bank, 1996);
19. Ariel Fiszbein, "The Emergence of Local Capacity: Lessons from Colombia," World Development, 25 (June 1998): 1029-43;
20. and H. Blair, "Participation and Accountability at the Periphery: Democratic Local Governance in Six Countries," World Development, 28 (January 2000): 21-39. Participatory governance institutions formally involve civil society in the process of decentralization.
21. See, for example, Hartmut Schneider, "Participatory Governance for Poverty Reduction," Journal of International Development, 11 (1999): 521 -34;
22. John Ackerman, "Co-Governance for Accountability: Beyond 'Exit' and 'Voice,'" World Development, 32 (January 2004): 447-63; and Brian Wampler, Participatory Budgeting in Brazil.
23. Merilee Grindle, Going Local: Decentralization, Democratization and the Promise of Good Government (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).
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25. Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee, eds., Decentralization to Local Governments in Developing Countries: A Comparative Perspective (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006).
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28. United Nations Development Program, Human Development Report 2002 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002);
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30. Goldfrank.
31. Ackerman.
32. Grindle.
33. Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965).
34. Victor Nunes, Coronelismo, Enxada e Voto: o Município e o Regime Representativo no Brasil (São Paulo: Editora Nova Fronteira. 1997);
35. Frances Hagopian, Traditional Politics and Regime Change in Brazil (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996);
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37. Brian Wampler, "Can Participatory Governance Institutions Promote Pluralism? Mobilizing Low-Income Citizens in Brazil," Studies in Comparative International Development, 41 (December 2007): 57-78.
38. Interview, Recife, Brazil, November 2008.
39. Robert D. Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993);
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49. IBGE, MUNIC, 2005 and 2008.
50. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), "Fundcações Privadas e Associações sem Fins Lucrativos no Brasil (FASFIL)," Cadastro Central de Empresas (CEMPRE), 2002, http://www.ibge.gov.br/.
51. The data follow the internationally recognized classifications of the Handbook on Nonprofit Institutions in the System of National Accounts distributed by the United Nations in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University. The nonprofit sector is characterized by Johns Hopkins University collaborator Anheier as "the social infrastructure of civil society, creating as well as facilitating a sense of trust and social inclusion that is seen as essential for the functioning of modem societies." Helmut K. Anheier, Civil Society: Measurement, Evaluation, Policy (London: Earthscan Publishing, 2004). p. 5.
52. See, for example, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Radicals in Power: The Workers' Party (PT) and Experiments in Urban Democracy in Brazil (London: Zed Books, 2003);
53. and Rebecca Abers, Inventing Local Democracy: Grassroots Politics in Brazil (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000).
54. Bardhan and Mookherjee.
55. Instituto de Pesquisa Económica Aplicada (IPEA), http://www.ipeadata.gov.br/.
56. Pedro Jacobi, "Challenging Traditional Participation in Brazil: The Goals of Participatory Budgeting," Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, 32 (1999).
57. Scholars have long documented the effects of locating poor residents on the peripheries of cities. For example, see Janice Perlman, The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1976);
58. and Ananya Roy and Nezar Al Sayyad, eds., Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia (New York: Lexington Books, 2004).
59. Interview with Raquel Rolnik, São Paulo, Brazil, December 2008.
60. Interview with leader from the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), São Paulo, Brazil, June 2008.