Citizenship as Consumption or Citizenship as Agency: comparing democratizing reforms in Bolivia and Brazil

The paper first discusses 2 opposing models of citizenship within Latin American: citizenship as consumption, which reflects the consequences of the pervasive influence of market-oriented reforms on patterns of representation in the context of universal political rights, and citizenship as agency, w...

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Autor: Oxhorn, Philip
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Sociologias (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/14963
Acceso en línea:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/sociologias/article/view/14963
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Citizenship
Agency
Civil Society
Popular Participation Law
Participatory Budgeting
Participation
Cidadania
Agência
Sociedade civil
Lei de Participação Popular
Orçamento Participativo
Participação
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Sumario:The paper first discusses 2 opposing models of citizenship within Latin American: citizenship as consumption, which reflects the consequences of the pervasive influence of market-oriented reforms on patterns of representation in the context of universal political rights, and citizenship as agency, which would reflect the emergence of alternative forms of participation through civil society and their potential impact on political patterns of representation. The second part of the paper then examines the potential for citizenship as agency to emerge by contrasting the impact of the Popular Participation Law in Bolivia and Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil.