International Policy Diffusion and Participatory Budgeting : Ambassadors of Participation, International Institutions and Transnational Networks

'This is a pioneering study. It raises the big questions of how ideas of democratic participation spread, and why they "stick" or do not. We don't have anything comparable in the field of local government, urban planning or comparative politics to rival the spread of Participator...

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Main Author Porto de Oliveira, Osmany (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
SeriesUrban Politics in a Global Society
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319433370
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-43337-0
Physical DescriptionXXIII, 269 p. 8 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Part One. Dynamics
  • Chapter 1. Accessing international policy diffusion
  • Chapter 2. The dynamics of the process of diffusion: Institutions, individuals and mechanisms
  • Part Two: The Process
  • Chapter 3. Ambassadors of participation: the internationalisation of PB
  • Chapter 4. Promoting Transnational Connections: The Networks of Participatory Democracy
  • Chapter 5. The Cascade: From the Tipping Point to Mass Diffusion
  • Part Three. Effects
  • Chapter 6. Mosaics of participation: Participatory Budgeting in Andean America and transfers on a national scale
  • Chapter 7. Sowing democratic seeds in the Desert: The Diffusion of PB in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Chapter 8. Conclusions and implications
  • Epilogue. The arrival in North America. .