New Institutions for Participatory Democracy in Latin America

1. Voice and Consequence: Direct Participation and Democracy in Latin America
Maxwell A. Cameron, Eric Hershberg, Kenneth E. Sharpe

2. “We’re Either Burned or Frozen Out”: Society and Party Systems in Latin American Municipal Development Councils (Nicaragua, Venezuela, Mexico, and Brazil)
Gisela Zaremberg

3. Participation as Representation: Democratic Policymaking in Brazil
Thamy Pogrebinschi

4. Constrained Participation: The Impact of Consultative Councils on National-Level Policy in Mexico
Felipe J. Hevia Jara, Ernesto Isunza Vera

5. Learning to Be “Better Democrats”? The Role of Informal Practices in Brazilian Participatory Budgeting Experiences
Françoise Montambeault

6. The Possibilities and Limits of Politicized Participation: Community Councils, Coproduction, and Poder Popular in Chávez’s Venezuela
Michael M. McCarthy

7. Direct Democracy in Uruguay and Venezuela: New Voices, Old Practices
Alicia Lissidini

8. Participation and Representation in Oaxaca, Mexico’s Customary Law Elections: Normative Debates and Lessons for Latin American Multiculturalism
Todd A. Eisenstadt, Jennifer Yelle

9. Elusive Demodiversity in Bolivia: Between Representation, Participation, and Self-Government
José Luis Exeni Rodríguez

10. Institutionalized Voice in Latin American Democracies
Maxwell A. Cameron, Kenneth E. Sharpe

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political Science, Electoral Politics, Latin American Culture, Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics, Democracy