International Policy Diffusion and Participatory Budgeting Ambassadors of Participation, International Institutions and Transnational Networks

Theorising the role of the “ambassadors of participation” in a completely unprecedented way, the book forges new analytical inroads to explore pubic policies that travel around the world. This book will undoubtedly become an extremely important reference to understand today’s world and its constant...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Porto de Oliveira, Osmany
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
Series:Urban Politics in a Global Society
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Part One. Dynamics
  • Chapter 1. Accessing international policy diffusion
  • Chapter 2. The dynamics of the process of diffusion: Institutions, individuals and mechanisms
  • Part Two: The Process
  • Chapter 3. Ambassadors of participation: the internationalisation of PB
  • Chapter 4. Promoting Transnational Connections: The Networks of Participatory Democracy
  • Chapter 5. The Cascade: From the Tipping Point to Mass Diffusion
  • Part Three. Effects
  • Chapter 6. Mosaics of participation: Participatory Budgeting in Andean America and transfers on a national scale
  • Chapter 7. Sowing democratic seeds in the Desert: The Diffusion of PB in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Chapter 8. Conclusions and implications
  • Epilogue. The arrival in North America.