Widening Democracy: Citizens and Participatory Schemes in Brazil and Chile (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789004177833)

Patricio Silva, Ph.D. (1987) in Political Science, Leiden University, is Professor of Modern Latin American History at Leiden University and Director of the Department of Latin American Studies. He has published extensively on the technocratic phenomenon in Latin America including In the Name of Reason: Technocrats and Politics in Chile (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008).
Herwig Cleuren, Ph.D. (2001) in Sociology of Development, Leiden University, has been Assistant Professor of Modern Latin American Studies at Leiden University. He is the author of several publications on participatory democracy in Brazil and Chile, including 'Local Democracy and Participation in Post-Authoritarian Chile' (European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2007).