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Democracia y participación: El caso del presupuesto participativo de Porto Alegre
El presupuesto participativo de Porto Alegre está considerado por la ONU como una de las cuarenta mejores prácticas de gestión urbana del mundo. En un proceso de intervención permanente los ciudadanos participan en las decisiones municipales. Reunidos en asambleas de distinta naturaleza, los ciudadanos plantean una serie de exigencias y establecen prioridades temáticas para la distribución de las inversiones municipales según criterios objetivos que permiten establecer prioridades cuantificadas. La participación ciudadana se verifica en una íntima articulación con las autoridades municipales. Es un sistema de gobierno compartido en el que la sociedad civil, lejos de ser un refugio en donde sobrevivir ante un Estado ausente u hostil, interviene en un proceso regular y organizado a partir del cual ejerce el control público mediante formas de cooperación y de conflicto institucionalizadas. La democracia participativa está tan anclada en la tradición política moderna como la democracia representativa. Se apoya en la idea de que los ciudadanos deben participar directamente en las decisiones políticas y no sólo en la elección de los políticos. La idea del presupuesto participativo de Porto Alegre ha cobrado una importancia impensable hace sólo unos pocos años, y hoy constituye una clara referencia para todos los ciudadanos del mundo. En este libro, Boaventura de Sousa Santos desgrana y analiza su funcionamiento.
272 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2004
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Boaventura de Sousa Santos
127 books140 followersBoaventura de Sousa Santos is Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra (Portugal), and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned an LL.M and J.S.D. from Yale University and holds the Degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, by McGill University.
He is director of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra and has written and published widely on the issues of globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, social movements and the World Social Forum. He has been awarded several prizes, most recently the Science and Technology Prize of Mexico, 2010, and the Kalven Jr. Prize of the Law and Society Association, 2011.
His most recent project – ALICE: Leading Europe to a New Way of Sharing the World Experiences – was funded by an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (ERC), one of the most prestigious and highly competitive international financial institutes for scientific excellence in Europe. The project was initiated in July 2011 and ended in December 2016.
Boaventura de Sousa Santos has published widely on globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, democracy, and human rights in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, Chinese, and Romanian.
He is director of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra and has written and published widely on the issues of globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, social movements and the World Social Forum. He has been awarded several prizes, most recently the Science and Technology Prize of Mexico, 2010, and the Kalven Jr. Prize of the Law and Society Association, 2011.
His most recent project – ALICE: Leading Europe to a New Way of Sharing the World Experiences – was funded by an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (ERC), one of the most prestigious and highly competitive international financial institutes for scientific excellence in Europe. The project was initiated in July 2011 and ended in December 2016.
Boaventura de Sousa Santos has published widely on globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, democracy, and human rights in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, Chinese, and Romanian.
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