With its experiment in participative budget-making over the past decade, Porto Alegre has institutionalized the direct democratic involvement, locality by local

First English-language guide to the new form of democractic government pioneered in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Brazil’s democracy has frequently been described as unconsolidated, its citizens as apathetic and uninterested in politics. But in Porto Alegre, a host city to

As Brazil and other countries in Latin America turned away from their authoritarian past and began the transition to democracy in the 1980s and 1990s, interest

The forms of liberal democracy developed in the 19th century seem increasingly ill-suited to the problems we face in the 21st. This dilemma has given rise to a