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Competitive Institution-Building: The PT and Participatory Budgeting in Rio Grande do Sul

Representação Política Mediante Organizações Civis: A Construção de Legitimidade no Contexto da Pós-transição

Responding to Fiscal Stress: Fiscal Institutions and Fiscal Adjustment in Four Brazilian States

Get what you want, give what you can : embedded public finance in Porto Alegre

Published by: IDS

The problem of public finance in Latin America is a structural contradiction. The historical pattern of insertion in the international...

Making Value Chain Governance Work for the Implementation of Quality, Labour and Environmental Standards: Upgrading Challenges in the Footwear Industry

Published by: Ashgate Publishing Limited

Developing Rights?

Published by: IDS

The recent 'rise of rights' has sparked much critical reflection, one of the key concerns being 'What is different this time'?. Can this emerging focus on rights within development help bring about favourable changes for poor and marginalised people?

The Movement of the Landless (MST) and the Juridical Field in Brazil

Published by: IDS

This paper focuses on the Movement of the Landless (MST) in Brazil, which through a number of legal strategies has helped produce watershed high court rulings, contributed to the process of constitutionalising law, and made access to land more equitable in parts of Brazil by redefining property rights in practice.

In Whose Name? Political Representation and Civil Organisations in Brazil

Published by: IDS

This paper examines which organisations define themselves as political representatives and the forms of representation they are constructing. It also explores some of the possible consequences of different forms of representation for democracy.

Contentious Politics, Contentious Knowledges: Mobilising Against GM Crops in India, South Africa and Brazil

Published by: IDS

Debates about science and technology are central to the future of development. No recent controversy has highlighted this as much as the debates about genetically-modified (GM) crops. Looking at the experiences of anti-GM activism in India, South Africa and Brazil, this paper explores how knowledge and politics are intertwined in mobilisation processes.

The Formation of the Brazilian Environmental Movement

Published by: IDS

Relying on a conceptual synthesis provided by the Political Processes Theory, this paper explains the formation of the Brazilian environmental movement from the 1970s to the 1990s.