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Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre: Social Innovation and the Dialectical Relationship of State and Civil Society

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  • Andreas Novy

    (Department of City and Regional Development, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Rossauer Lände 23/3 floor, 1090 Vienna, Austria, Andreas.novy@ wu-wien.ac.at)

  • Bernhard Leubolt

    (Department of City and Regional Development, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Rossauer Lände 23/3 floor, 1090 Vienna, Austria, leu@gmx.at)

Abstract

This article focuses on the identification and role of social innovation in urban development. The aim is to further the understanding of the contradictory relationship between state and civil society, using a thorough analysis of the process of participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, the capital city of Rio Grande do Sul—the most southern state of Brazil. The first section spells out four different concepts of the relationship between state and civil society and their implications for social innovation. In the second section, these popular movements are shown to be embedded in the historically rooted structure of patrimonialism and capitalism in Brazil. The third section provides an historical analysis of Brazilian popular movements which represent new key actors in civil society. The fourth section offers a detailed description of the process of the participatory budget. In the final section, conclusions are drawn about social innovation in local politics, focusing on the empowering experiments with new public and democratic forms of the local state accessible to civil society and its interests.

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  • Andreas Novy & Bernhard Leubolt, 2005. "Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre: Social Innovation and the Dialectical Relationship of State and Civil Society," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 42(11), pages 2023-2036, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:42:y:2005:i:11:p:2023-2036
    DOI: 10.1080/00420980500279828
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    2. Roach, Brian, 2008. "Policies for Funding a Response to Climate Change," Working Papers 179062, Tufts University, Global Development and Environment Institute.
    3. Yevgeniy Popov, 2018. "Econotronics," Economy of region, Centre for Economic Security, Institute of Economics of Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, vol. 1(1), pages 13-28.
    4. Novy, Andreas & Lengauer, Lukas & Coimbra de Souza, Daniela, 2008. "Vienna in an emerging trans-border region. Socioeconomic development in Central Europe," SRE-Discussion Papers 2008/08, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.
    5. Ernesto Ganuza & Héloïse Nez & Ernesto Morales, 2014. "The Struggle for a Voice: Tensions between Associations and Citizens in Participatory Budgeting," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 38(6), pages 2274-2291, November.

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