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| Author: | Baiocchi, G. |
| Title: | Emergent Public Spheres: Talking Politics in Participatory Governance |
| Journal: | American Sociological Review
2003 : FEB, VOL. 68:1, p. 52-74 |
| Index terms: | POLITICS SOCIOLOGY GOVERNMENT |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article addresses the question of whether and how participation in government promotes the conditions for participants to engage in the open-ended and public- minded discussion heralded by democratic theorists. Ethnographic evidence shows how participants in assemblies of the "participatory budget" in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, created open-ended and public- minded discussion in two of the city's poor districts. The urban poor of Latin American have often been treated as unlikely candidates for democratic engagement, but in these meetings participants regularly carved out spaces for civic discourse and deliberation, deploying a language of the commonality of needs as a vocabulary of public interest. |
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