Reframing citizenship in contemporary brazil: the effectiveness of democratic institutions
Reframing citizenship in contemporary brazil: the effectiveness of democratic institutions

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I present an overview of the formation of two models of participatory political institutions that are linked to the Brazilian redemocratization process and were conceived in order to stimulate citizen participation. I build on the theme of democratic effectiveness in Brazil to analyze the public policy management councils and the ouvidorias (ombuds offices). I evaluate whether they achieve or not the democratic potentials that they were invested with at the time of Brazilian redemocratization, more than twenty years ago. If, on the one hand, the public policy management councils have been increasingly studied by Brazilian social scientists in recent years, on the other hand, the ouvidoriasare much less studied and were almost forgotten by sociologists and political scientists.

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