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Political Intermediation and Public Policy in Brazil: Councils and Conferences in the Policy Spheres of Health and Women’s Rights

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This chapter discusses a much-needed accurate understanding of the role of participation in policy making by focusing on three different dimensions of political intermediation carried out by participatory institutions in Brazil. It is argued that both policy sector trajectories of development and policy communities shape political intermediation by participatory institutions in policy making. By examining participation in health and women rights through councils and conferences—two of the most consolidated experiences of participatory democracy in Brazil—the chapter shows that the degree of sectoral institutionalization and consolidation of policy communities favour legitimacy, accountability and representativeness of the practices performed by intermediaries.

Adrián Gurza Lavalle thanks the support by the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM), grant nr. 2013/07616-7, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).

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  1. Department of Political Science, University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

    Wagner de Melo Romão

  2. Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil

    Adrián Gurza Lavalle

  3. Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM), São Paulo, Brazil

    Adrián Gurza Lavalle

  4. Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP), São Paulo, Brazil

    Adrián Gurza Lavalle

  5. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Mexico City, Mexico

    Gisela Zaremberg

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    Valeria Guarneros-Meza

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de Melo Romão, W., Gurza Lavalle, A., Zaremberg, G. (2017). Political Intermediation and Public Policy in Brazil: Councils and Conferences in the Policy Spheres of Health and Women’s Rights. In: Zaremberg, G., Guarneros-Meza, V., Gurza Lavalle, A. (eds) Intermediation and Representation in Latin America. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51538-0_2

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