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Participatory Governance in Latin America: Promises and Limitations

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Cameron Maxwell A. , Hershberg Eric , and Sharpe Kenneth E. , eds., New Institutions for Participatory Democracy in Latin America: Voice and Consequence. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Tables, figures, bibliography, index; 263 pp.; hardcover $105, paperback $30, ebook $19.99.

Montambeault Françoise , The Politics of Local Participatory Democracy in Latin America: Institutions, Actors, and Interactions. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 288 pp.; hardcover $65, ebook.

Silva Patricio and Cleuren Herwig , eds., Widening Democracy: Citizens and Participatory Schemes in Brazil and Chile. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index; 379 pp.; hardcover $87, ebook $90.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Matthew Rhodes-Purdy*
Affiliation:
Washington University in St. Louis. matthew.rhodes-purdy@wustl.edu
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