Lecture on participatory budgetting and the mapping of local civil societies in Brazil
About the lecturer
Gianpaolo Baiocchi is Director of Development Studies and Associate Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Radicals in Power: The Workers’ Party (PT) and Experiments in Urban Democracy in Brazil (2003) and Militants and Citizens: The Politics of Participatory Democracy in Porto Alegre (2005).
Source web: http://www.cinefogo.org/learning-dialogue/lectures/cipaci-lecture-090217/About CINEFOGO
CINEFOGO is an acronym for Network of Excellence “Civil Society and New Forms of Governance in Europe – the Making of European Citizenship”. CINEFOGO aims at enhancing the understanding of social and democratic processes, citizenship and democratic participation in Europe. It seeks to provide knowledge about civil society, citizenship and social protection, nourish a public debate on governance and strengthen intellectual co-operation. To learn more on CINEFOGO, visit http://www.cinefogo.org or send an e-mail to cinefogo@ruc.dk. The CINEFOGO Network of Excellence is supported by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Programme, Priority 7: New Forms of Citizenship and Cultural Identities of the European Union.
About CIPACI
Department of Society and Globalization, Roskilde University The Center for International Studies in Citizenship, Democratic Participation, and Civil Society (CIPACI) aims at strengthening research into the social and democratic processes that are involved in defining citizenship rights, enhancing active participation, and organizing democratic interaction between civil society organizations and state at local, regional, national and global levels. http://www.cinefogo.org/learning-dialogue/lectures/cipaci