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Over the past two decades we have heard an historically unprecedented volume of talk about and praise of democracy, and many governmental, non-governmental, and international organizations have been engaged in democracy promotion. Democracy is a subject that crosses the boundaries in political science, and within my own field of political theory there has been a major revival of democratic theory. In political theory, argument about "democracy" is usually now qualified by one of an array of adjectives, which include cosmopolitan, agonistic, republican, and monitory. But the new form that has been by far the most successful is deliberative democracy. By 2007 John Dryzek could write that "deliberative democracy now constitutes the most active area of political theory in its entirety (not just democratic theory)." Not only is there an extremely large and rapidly growing literature, both theoretical and empirical, on deliberative democracy, but its influence has spread far outside universities.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 Elitist Democracy, Civic Disengagement, and Citizen Politics in the United States -- Chapter 2 Elitist Democracy, Civic Disengagement, and Citizen Politics in Brazil -- Chapter 3 Participatory Democracy in Theory -- Chapter 4 Participatory Democracy in Practice-Brazil's Workers' Party and the Participatory Budget -- Chapter 5 The Orçamento Participativo in Betim, Minas Gerais -- Chapter 6 Examining the Claims of Proponents of the Participatory Budget -- Chapter 7 Examining the Claims of Critics of the Participatory Budget -- Chapter 8 Administering the Participatory Budget-Ideology and Dedication -- Conclusion: Participatory Democracy versus Elitist Democracy-Lessons from Brazil -- Notes -- Annex 1 Questionnaire for Delegates and Councilors of the Participatory Budget, 1998 -- Annex 2 Characteristics of 1998 OP Delegates (Respondents) in Betim and Belo Horizonte -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

We study a scenario where elections are held and two parties, a traditional downsian party and a party implementing Participatory Democracy, compete to win elections. We examine in detail the options of the party representing Participatory Democracy to win. The Participatory Democracy party will celebrate an assembly if taking-o¢ ce, where any citizen-candidate can represent his ideal position. This will make evaluate the party as a lottery. We consider different assembly equilibria varying the number of candidates. We include the valence characteristic concept and show the different strategies of both parties according to the valence advantage over the opponent. ; España. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación SECO2008-03674/ECON ; España. Junta de Andalucía SEJ 5980

This paper presents an approach to the process of designing a Citizen Participation Regulation in a country's municipalities characterized by being located in one of those states that have been governed for nine consecutive decades by a single party, conceived, until recently, some years, as the official party. As the objective of a broader investigation, from which this article originates, we sought to observe and obtain, through a Participatory Action Research process, elements, schemes and citizen behaviors when intervening in public affairs. ; En este trabajo se expone una aproximación al proceso de diseño de un Reglamento de Participación Ciudadana en un municipios del país caracterizado por estar situado en una de esas entidades federativas que han sido gobernadas, durante nueve décadas consecutivas, por un solo partido, concebido hasta hace algunos años como el partido oficial. Como objetivo de una investigación más amplia, de donde proviene este artículo, se buscó observar y obtener, mediante un proceso de Investigación Acción Participante, elementos, esquemas y comportamientos ciudadanos al intervenir en asuntos públicos.

This paper describes a hands-on workshop in the democratic design of a school, including decisions about curriculum, instruction, assessment, learning spaces, and practices. Participants are guided through a series of Phases of Action, and make all design decisions by Formal Consensus, to collaboratively draft a school plan.Full text at ACM

Persönliches Engagement in Partizipativer Demokratie.