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Deliberating Democracy: Scenes from a Brazilian Municipal Health Council

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  • Andrea Cornwall

    (Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK, a.cornwall@ids.ac.uk)

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Brazil's health councils appear to offer inspiring examples of what Fung and Wright (2003) term “empowered participatory governance.†But what happens in practice? This article narrates an episode in the life of a municipal health council in northeast Brazil, in which democracy itself came under deliberation. It seeks to locate normative assumptions embedded in theories of deliberative democracy and participatory governance in everyday conduct in one of these institutions. It suggests that assessing the democratizing potential of the myriad new spaces that now populate governance landscapes the world over calls for far closer attention to be paid to power, political culture, and politics.

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  • Andrea Cornwall, 2008. "Deliberating Democracy: Scenes from a Brazilian Municipal Health Council," Politics & Society, , vol. 36(4), pages 508-531, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:polsoc:v:36:y:2008:i:4:p:508-531
    DOI: 10.1177/0032329208324718
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    1. Claire Bénit-Gbaffou & Obvious Katsaura, 2014. "Community Leadership and the Construction of Political Legitimacy: Unpacking Bourdieu's ‘Political Capital’ in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 38(5), pages 1807-1832, September.

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