02549nam 22004093a 450 991043325410332120211214195614.01-78371-798-X(CKB)4100000005468738(ScCtBLL)5444a5e7-110c-4695-bee0-b741150a78bd(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29410(EXLCZ)99410000000546873820211214i20162020 uu enguru||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Limits to Citizen Power : Participatory Democracy and the Entanglements of the State /Victor AlbertPluto Press2016London :Pluto Press,2016.1 online resourceCan a political project exist outside of the power relations from which it is trying to emerge? In the twilight of Brazil's twenty-one year military regime, a new union movement emerged in São Paulo's industrial region, giving life to a new political party: the Workers' Party. The electoral success enjoyed by the party enabled it to champion a whole raft of democratic reforms and Brazil is now celebrated as a laboratory for popular and participatory forms of government. However, through analysis of the trajectory of the Worker Party's democratic experiment, the true challenge of embedding democracy inside existing state structures emerges. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, Victor Albert provides a critical analysis of citizen participation in Santo André, in the region of Greater São Paulo where the Workers' Party was founded, holding a microscope to the power relations between political appointees, public officials and local community activists. Albert also reveals how different social actors think and feel about citizen participation away from formal assemblies, and how some participants engage in what is a tenuous, and at times mutually distrustful, tactical and strategic relationship with political patrons.Political Science / Political Ideologies / DemocracybisacshPolitical sciencePolitical SciencePolitical IdeologiesDemocracyPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / DemocracyPolitical scienceAlbert Victor1071153ScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910433254103321The Limits to Citizen Power2565997UNINA