workingPaper
Forms of participatory democracy : an analytical framework based on the experiences of Bolivia, brazil and Colombia
Fecha
2004Registro en:
0124-4396
Autor
Forero Pineda, Clemente
Sepulveda, Carlos E.
Institución
Resumen
Based on the experiences of Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia, the paper proposes a general analytical framework for participatory mechanisms. The analysis is oriented to detect the incentives in each system and theethics and behavior sustaining them. It investigates about the sustainability of participatory democracy, in the face of tensions with representative democracy. The article presents a theoretical framework built from theseexperiences of institutional design and political practice, and confronts it against the theoretical conceptualizationsof participatory democracy in Bobbio, Sartori, Elster and Nino, among others. In this context, different waysin which those schemes can be inserted in the political systems become apparent, along with the variables thatresult from combining elements of direct, representative and participatory democracy”