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Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre: Social Innovation and the Dialectical Relationship of State and Civil Society

Department of City and Regional Development, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Rossauer Lände 23/3 floor, 1090 Vienna, Austria, Andreas.novy@ wu-wien.ac.at

Bernhard Leubolt

Department of City and Regional Development, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Rossauer Lände 23/3 floor, 1090 Vienna, Austria, leu{at}gmx.at

This article focuses on the identification and role of social innovation in urban development. The aim is to further the understanding of the contradictory relationship between state and civil society, using a thorough analysis of the process of participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, the capital city of Rio Grande do Sul—the most southern state of Brazil. The first section spells out four different concepts of the relationship between state and civil society and their implications for social innovation. In the second section, these popular movements are shown to be embedded in the historically rooted structure of patrimonialism and capitalism in Brazil. The third section provides an historical analysis of Brazilian popular movements which represent new key actors in civil society. The fourth section offers a detailed description of the process of the participatory budget. In the final section, conclusions are drawn about social innovation in local politics, focusing on the empowering experiments with new public and democratic forms of the local state accessible to civil society and its interests.

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