The Limits to Citizen Power : Participatory Democracy and the Entanglements of the State
Can a political project exist outside of the power relations from which it is trying to emerge? In the twilight of Brazil's twenty-one year military regime, a new union movement emerged in São Paulo's industrial region, giving life to a new political party: the Workers'Party. The electoral success e...
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