Democracy, scale and participation. Reflections from Brazilian participatory institutions
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https://doi.org/10.3989/ris.2016.74.3.040Keywords:
Councils, Deliberative Democracy, National Conferences, Participatory Democracy, Scaling UpAbstract
A generalized approach in democratic theory exists, especially in participatory theory, in which the smaller the scale (defined as size of territory or administrative level), the more chance there is to develop better quality participatory processes. In response to this perspective, we will compare two types of Participating Institutions in Brazil (Councils and National Conferences) in municipalities of different sizes and administrative levels. The hypothesis of this paper is that intermediate levels are those of higher democratic quality.
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