Title: Deepening democracy : innovations in empowered participatory governance

Authors: Fung, Archon and Wright, Erik Olin

Place: [London etc.]

Publisher: Sage

Year: 2001

Journal: Politics & society

Volume: Vol. 29, No. 1

PAGE: 5--41

Subject: Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Keywords: democracy, community participation, budgeting, development planning, brazil, india, united states

Abstract: Five experiments in participatory deliberative governance from Brazil, India, and the USA are examined. It is shown that these designs are more responsiveness, effective, fair, participatory, deliberative, and accountable than more conventional models.

URL: http://www.archonfung.com/papers/FungDeepDemocPS.pdf

Document type: Portal