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  • 5 - Brazil’s Participatory Infrastructure

  • from Part I - Extending Social Policy and Participation
  • Edited by Diana Kapiszewski, Georgetown University, Washington DC, Steven Levitsky, Harvard University, Massachusetts, Deborah J. Yashar, Princeton University, New Jersey
  • Book:
    The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies
    Published online:
    12 January 2021
    Print publication:
    04 February 2021, pp 155-182

  • Summary

    This chapter sets out a roadmap to understand the new politics of participation in Latin America by exploring the intersection between two important transformations in society and the state. First, we highlight new actors in state and society who are pressing for policy reform. Whereas the existing literature focuses on interests organized around social class and indigenous identity, we reveal a rainbow of societal actors that span class lines, as well as the emergence of activist bureaucrats, who work together to demand greater social inclusion and policy change. Second, while prior studies emphasize representative institutions as the main site to advance policy change, we analyze the importance of new institutions for participation in the executive and the judicial branches of government. These sites have been central for activism in a range of underexplored policy areas, including the environment; the rights of women, people with disabilities, and sexual minorities; and crime. Together, we argue, these new actors and institutions are redefining the politics of participation today in Latin America.

  • Society-driven Participatory Institutions: Lessons from Colombia’s Planning Councils

  • Lindsay Mayka
  • Journal:
    Latin American Politics and Society / Volume 61 / Issue 2 / May 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 March 2019, pp. 93-114

  • This article challenges the conventional wisdom that enthusiastic state support is a prerequisite to building strong participatory institutions. Through an analysis of Colombia’s planning councils, this study develops the concept of the societydriven participatory institution, in which civil society actors, rather than the state, undertake the core tasks involved in implementing participatory institutions. The article argues that while state neglect limits their involvement in decisionmaking, society-driven participatory institutions can still develop important policymaking roles in agenda setting and in monitoring and evaluating public policy.