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The Scale of Participation: From Municipal Public Budget to Cities' Conference
[journal article]
Abstract "In a well ordered city every man flies to the assemblies:
under a bad government no one cares to stir a step to get
to them, because no one is interested in what happens
there, because it is foreseen that the general will will not
prevail, and lastly because domestic cares are allabsorbing.
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"In a well ordered city every man flies to the assemblies:
under a bad government no one cares to stir a step to get
to them, because no one is interested in what happens
there, because it is foreseen that the general will will not
prevail, and lastly because domestic cares are allabsorbing.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones;
bad ones bring about worse. As soon as man says of the
affairs of the State What does it matter to me? the State
may be given up for lost. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1950:
93)." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
local politics; citizens' participation; political participation; municipal budget; Brazil; democratization; the public; political culture
Classification
Special areas of Departmental Policy
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Sociology of Settlements and Housing, Urban Sociology
Document language
English
Publication Year
2006
Page/Pages
p. 78-97
Journal
International Journal of Action Research, 2 (2006) 1
ISSN
1861-1303
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications