Title: Ideologia e governabilidade: as políticas participativas nos governos do PT
Abstract:Brazil has been a fertile place for successful democratic innovations since its redemocratization in the 1980s, ranging from local Participatory Budgeting up to more complex forms of Participatory Sys...Brazil has been a fertile place for successful democratic innovations since its redemocratization in the 1980s, ranging from local Participatory Budgeting up to more complex forms of Participatory Systems at different government levels.The left leaning Workers' Party (PT) has had a prominent role in such diffusion process.But why?I argue that the promotion of participatory institutions by PT is a combination of ideological and pragmatic interests.Ideologically, PT forges its political identity in mutual constitution with grassroots social movements and a strong commitment with redistributive policies.On the pragmatic side, the multiplication of State-Society interaction channels enables the building of a social coalition to support the government and its political agenda, in a complex governance arrangement.My argument is based on in-depth process tracing, which compares two different government levels: the State of Rio Grande do Sul and the Brazilian Federal Government, between 1999 and2014.Read More