Radicals in Power
Zed Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84277-172-3 (ISBN)
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In January 2003 Lula assumed office as President of Brazil, and for the first time the Workers' Party (PT) took control of the federal government. Radicals in Power provides a uniquely rich and systematically comparative account of the innovative policies at state level, and in big and medium-sized cities, which the PT has introduced over the past 20 years. Based on original field investigation, and authored by scholars and those who have been actual participants in the process, this volume provides a unique body of information and understanding of the ways in which a non-dogmatic leftwing political movement has instituted a highly innovative set of experiments (the most famous example being Porto Alegre) to involve ordinary citizens, especially the socially disadvantaged, in the local policy choices and fiscal allocation decisions which affect their lives, as well as a variety of other experiments to achieve both participation and social redistribution and justice.
The obstacles are many, as this volume makes clear, and there have been both failures and electoral setbacks. But at a time when conventional representative democratic institutions command less and less enthusiasm (as seen in declining voter turnouts in most countries), the PT's innovative experiments with new forms of participatory decisionmaking have a potentially huge significance for the renewal of the substance of democratic government worldwide. Here is a left-oriented, but non-dogmatic, political movement, now in power nationally, refusing simply to try and manage humanely a neoliberal, market-dominated economy, but instead experimenting with imaginative new ways of achieving redistribution and social justice in a non-revolutionary manner. Little wonder that political parties and city administrations elsewhere in Latin America and further afield are flocking to Brazil to learn from these extraordinarily important experiments.
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, received his PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin (2001) where his dissertation examined the PT administration of Porto Alegre. He has published several articles on local democracy in Brazil. He was a participant in the discussions around the decentralization campaign carried out by the Communist Party of India in Kerala, and is currently part of a comparative research network that is carrying out a research project on local democratic experiments in South Africa, Brazil and India.
Preface 1
Glossary5
1. Radicals in power - Gianpaolo Baiocchi12
Introduction 12
Urban dystopias and the changing urban landscapes in Brazil18
Toward a democratic city21
Enter the PT25
The dilemmas of radicals31
The essays in this book46
2. Making participation work in Porto Alegre - Benjamin Goldfrank52
Introduction52
Failure in the first two years53
Regaining credibility through administrative reform and community pressure66
Appendix 182
3. Faith in what will change: The PT administration in Bel'm - John A. Guidry and Pere Petit87
Santa Maria de Bel'm do GrAEo-Par 88
Into the breach: Victory in 199692
Key policies and programs96
Dilemmas of governing114
The modo petista de governar in Bel'm122
4. The second time around: Marta Suplicy's PT administration in SAEo Paulo - Claudio Gonalves Couto126
Introduction126
The previous experience127
The Malufist interregnum130
The construction of the majority in the city council133
The assembly of the new administration136
A preliminary evaluation138
5. An enduring legacy? Popular participation in the aftermath of the participatory budgets of JoAEo Monlevade and Betim, Minas Gerais - William R. Nylen144
Introduction144
The PB in practice: So what?147
The case studies150
JoAEo Monlevade152
Betim157
Conclusion170
6. Participation by design: The experiences of the cities of Alvorada and Gravita!, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Marcelo Kunrath Silva176
Introduction176
Associative traditions and 'working-class participation': Porto Alegre's experience 177
Civil society and participation in the PB: The cases of Alvorada and Gravata!180
Civil society and participation in the PB in Alvorada182
Civil society and participation in the PB in Gravita!191
Conclusions197
7. PT never again? Failure (and success) in the PT's state government in Espirito Santo and the Distrito Federal - Fiona Macaulay and Guy Burton202
Introduction202
Evaluating PT administrations204
Esp!rito Santo212
Bras!lia223
Conclusions229
8. Restraining the revolution or deepening democracy? The Workers' Party in Rio Grande do Sul - Benjamin Goldfrank and Aaron Schneider235
Introduction235
Winning office241
Opposition from the right and the left244
Scaling up the PB from the city to the state247
Conclusion: The dilemmas of governing256
9. The purple in the rainbow: Gender politics in the PT - Fiona Macaulay265
Introduction265
Gender policy in local government: Slow progress280
Gender policies294
Conclusions297
10. The dilemmas and limits of transformation: A commentary - Rachel Meneguello301
11. The long march through institutions: Lessons from the PT in power - Gianpaolo Baiocchi 310
The oasis and the archipelago310
The long march through institutions: Overcoming the dilemmas of the electoral left312
An even newer kind of party?323
The contribution to democracy327
The capitalist city reimagined333
References337
About the contributors369
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.6.2003 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84277-172-8 / 1842771728 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84277-172-3 / 9781842771723 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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