The Limits to Citizen Power
Can a political project exist outside of the power relations from which it is trying to emerge? In the twilight of Brazil’s twenty-one year military regime, a new union movement emerged in São Paulo’s industrial region, giving life to a new political party: the Workers’ Party. The electoral success...
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| description | Can a political project exist outside of the power relations from which it is trying to emerge? In the twilight of Brazil’s twenty-one year military regime, a new union movement emerged in São Paulo’s industrial region, giving life to a new political party: the Workers’ Party. The electoral success enjoyed by the party enabled it to champion a whole raft of democratic reforms and Brazil is now celebrated as a laboratory for popular and participatory forms of government. However, through analysis of the trajectory of the Worker Party’s democratic experiment, the true challenge of embedding democracy inside existing state structures emerges.
Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, Victor Albert provides a critical analysis of citizen participation in Santo André, in the region of Greater São Paulo where the Workers’ Party was founded, holding a microscope to the power relations between political appointees, public officials and local community activists. Albert also reveals how different social actors think and feel about citizen participation away from formal assemblies, and how some participants engage in what is a tenuous, and at times mutually distrustful, tactical and strategic relationship with political patrons. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-294102025-07-30T14:29:04Z The Limits to Citizen Power Albert, Victor Political Science Political Ideologies Democracy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHV Political structures: democracy Can a political project exist outside of the power relations from which it is trying to emerge? In the twilight of Brazil’s twenty-one year military regime, a new union movement emerged in São Paulo’s industrial region, giving life to a new political party: the Workers’ Party. The electoral success enjoyed by the party enabled it to champion a whole raft of democratic reforms and Brazil is now celebrated as a laboratory for popular and participatory forms of government. However, through analysis of the trajectory of the Worker Party’s democratic experiment, the true challenge of embedding democracy inside existing state structures emerges. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, Victor Albert provides a critical analysis of citizen participation in Santo André, in the region of Greater São Paulo where the Workers’ Party was founded, holding a microscope to the power relations between political appointees, public officials and local community activists. Albert also reveals how different social actors think and feel about citizen participation away from formal assemblies, and how some participants engage in what is a tenuous, and at times mutually distrustful, tactical and strategic relationship with political patrons. 2021-02-10T13:32:17Z 2021-02-10T13:32:17Z 2020-12-15T14:24:20Z 2016 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/44103 9781783717989 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29410 eng open access image/png image/png n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/44103/1/external_content.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/44103/1/external_content.epub Pluto Press Pluto Press cdf55516-7e48-4edb-898e-73aa7305a12c Knowledge Unlatched 9781783717989 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2019: HSS Backlist Books Pluto Press open access |
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| topic | Political Science Political Ideologies Democracy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHV Political structures: democracy |
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