{"product_id":"bootstrapping-democracy-gianpaolo-baiocchi-9780804760560","title":"Bootstrapping Democracy: Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil","description":"\u003cp\u003eDespite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participation's real impact. This book investigates participatory budgeting--a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs--to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society. Looking closely at eight cities in Brazil, comparing those that carried out participatory budgeting reforms between 1997 and 2000 with those that did not, the authors examine whether and how institutional reforms take effect.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBootstrapping Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the importance of local-level innovations and democratic advances, charting a middle path between those who theorize that globalization hollows out democracy and those who celebrate globalization as a means of fostering democratic values. Uncovering the state's role in creating an \"associational environment,\" it reveals the contradictory ways institutional reforms shape the democratic capabilities of civil society and how outcomes are conditioned by relations between the state and civil society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Patrick Heller, Marcelo Silva\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080476056X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804760560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2011 pg. 113","brand":"Gianpaolo Baiocchi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988270383359,"sku":"9780804760560","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4b4b7d35-26fb-4084-9332-91b37cd97dbe.jpg?v=1683293584","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bootstrapping-democracy-gianpaolo-baiocchi-9780804760560","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}