Voice and Consequence

Cameron, Maxwell A.; Hershberg, Eric; Sharpe, Kenneth Evan

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“…According to Alvarez (2017), cogovernance was quintessentially exemplified by participatory budgeting, whereby collaboration between neighborhood associations and local officials of the Workers’ Party in Porto Alegre, Brazil, enabled individual citizens to deliberate and direct allocation of portions of municipal tax revenues within restructured municipal apparatuses (Goldfrank, 2011). As participatory budgeting was diffused across Brazil and the world, however, it was separated from grassroots control (Baiocchi and Ganuza, 2017) and appropriated by state agencies seeking to garner legitimacy (Cameron, Hershberg, and Sharpe, 2012). We thus see that cogovernance has the potential to generate radical transformations only if and when movements retain their autonomous, constituent power in interactions with the state.…”

Section: Cogovernance Feminist Movements and Deepening Democracy Inmentioning

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“…As George Ciccariello-Maher (2013) demonstrates in the case of Venezuela, for instance, popular movements harnessed their explosive constituent power from below to force the Chávez government to radicalize an initially reformist project and reconstitute state power. In similar fashion, Evo Morales’s Movimiento al Socialismo party in Bolivia grew out of the popular rebellions that toppled neoliberal governments in the 2000s to then collaborate with diverse movements in implementing new forms of plurinational citizenship and communal democracy (Cameron, Hershberg, and Sharpe, 2012). However, in both Venezuela and Bolivia, state attempts to institutionalize the vehicles of popular power have led to setbacks in revolutionary goals and reductions in movements’ strategic power vis-à-vis state institutions (Fernandes, 2010; Oikonomakis and Espinoza, 2014).…”

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The Horizon of Critical Collaboration: Feminist Cogovernance and Movement-State Negotiations in El Salvador

Burridge¹

2020

Latin American Perspectives

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Examination of the negotiated relationships between feminist social movements and state institutions controlled by the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front political party in El Salvador based on ethnographic research in the semiurban municipality of Suchitoto shows that “critical collaboration” characterizes the local feminist movement’s efforts to work alongside state actors in the formulation, implementation, and oversight of public policies addressing women’s rights, violence against women, and gender-equitable community development. Theoretically, critical collaboration shows that civil society actors interested in deepening emancipatory processes under moderate leftist governments need not be subordinated to constituted state power or contentiously confront it. Rather, by pursuing their agendas through critical and autonomous engagement with ostensibly sympathetic state institutions, feminist movements may engender practices and demands for flexible and responsive “cogovernance” that radically transforms elements of the state and society in the long run. A partir de una investigación etnográfica en el municipio semiurbano de Suchitoto se hace un análisis de las relaciones negociadas entre los movimientos sociales feministas y las instituciones estatales controladas por el partido político de izquierda Frente Farabundo Martí de Liberación Nacional en El Salvador. Se muestra cómo la “colaboración crítica” ha sido la característica de los esfuerzos del movimiento feminista local para trabajar junto con los actores estatales en la formulación, implementación y supervisión de políticas públicas relacionadas con los derechos de las mujeres, la violencia contra las mujeres y un desarrollo comunitario equitativo en materia de género. Teóricamente, la colaboración crítica muestra que los actores de la sociedad civil interesados en profundizar los procesos emancipatorios bajo gobiernos de izquierda moderados no necesitan estar subordinados al poder estatal ni tampoco confrontarlo. Más bien, al promover sus agendas a través de un compromiso crítico y autónomo con instituciones estatales aparentemente comprensivas, los movimientos feministas pueden generar prácticas y demandas de “cogobierno” flexible y receptivo que, a largo plazo, transformen radicalmente elementos tanto del Estado como la sociedad.

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The Horizon of Critical Collaboration: Feminist Cogovernance and Movement-State Negotiations in El Salvador

Burridge¹

2020

Latin American Perspectives

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“… 1 For the phrase “democratize democracy,” see Santos and Avritzer 2005. See also Cameron, Herschberg, and Sharpe 2012; Fung 2011, and Smulovitz and Peruzzotti 2000. …”

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“… 37 On participatory institutions in Latin America, see Cameron, Herschberg, and Sharpe 2012; Fung 2011; Nylen 2011. …”

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Scaling Democracy: Participation and Resource Extraction in Latin America

Riofrancos¹

2017

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In an extractive economy with territorially uneven costs and benefits, who should decide the fate of oil and mining projects: directly affected minorities or national citizenries? I reframe this question empirically: How are the collective identities and interests attached to various scales of democracy politically constructed in the increasingly frequent conflicts over resource extraction in Latin America, and what can we learn from these conflicts about broader dynamics of democratic contestation? To answer this question, I propose the concept of scaling democracy: the agonistic processes by which the scales of democratic decision-making and the democratic people are contested, established, and transformed. The concept of scaling democracy draws our attention to the ways in which the collective identities and interests attached to the various scales of democracy are constructed. These interest-articulations and collective identities are shaped by available institutional norms, organizational infrastructures, and social meanings. I draw on data from participant observation of a community mining consultation in Ecuador, and show that participatory institutions in the arena of resource extraction have fueled a contentious process of scaling democracy, with broader implications for the study of participatory democracy and scholarship on the relationship between resource-dependency and democracy.

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“…Moreover, the analysis of mechanisms such as the Communal Councils and the Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control sheds light on the undemocratic potential of participatory mechanisms and on how they may contribute to the consolidation of hybrid regimes, an area still largely unexplored. Recently, authors such as Levitsky and Roberts (2011) and Cameron et al (2012) have recognized the possible manipulation of participatory mechanisms, including the dangers such manipulation may pose to other democratic institutions 5…”

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Participatory Mechanisms in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela: Deepening or Undermining Democracy?

Balderacchi¹

2015

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Through the comparative analysis of the participatory mechanisms established in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela, this study explores under which conditions such mechanisms are more likely to deepen or undermine democracy. While the informal participatory mechanisms established in Bolivia have produced, though imperfectly, significant democratic benefits, in Ecuador and Venezuela crucial participatory mechanisms have appeared to favour the concentration of power in the executive, contributing to the strangulation of representative institutions, the erosion of the separation of powers and the development of government-dominated social groups. By shedding light on the undemocratic manipulation of participatory mechanisms, an area still largely unexplored, this study contributes to a better understanding of the risks and opportunities associated with the deepening of democracy.

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Voice and Consequence

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The Horizon of Critical Collaboration: Feminist Cogovernance and Movement-State Negotiations in El Salvador

The Horizon of Critical Collaboration: Feminist Cogovernance and Movement-State Negotiations in El Salvador

Scaling Democracy: Participation and Resource Extraction in Latin America

Participatory Mechanisms in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela: Deepening or Undermining Democracy?

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