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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154690503321

Autore

Baiocchi Gianpaolo <1971->

Titolo

Popular democracy : the paradox of participation / / Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Ernesto Ganuza

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5036-0077-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 pages)

Disciplina

321.8

Soggetti

Political participation

Democracy

Municipal budgets - Citizen participation

Municipal government - Citizen participation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- One. The Participation Age -- Two. The New Spirit of Government -- Three. The Global Spread of Participation -- Four. The Rhetoric of Emancipation: Córdoba, Spain -- Five. A Government Closer to the People: Chicago, Illinois -- Six. The Utopian Undercurrent of Participation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all cities have developed opportunities for citizen involvement in strategic planning. The World Bank has invested