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The demand for ‘critical research’ in a competitive authoritarian regime: think tanks in Mozambique by Nylen, William R.

“…Think tanks in competitive authoritarian regimes are implicitly if not explicitly oppositional, producing and disseminating research critical of government…”
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Testing the Empowerment Thesis: The Participatory Budget in Belo Horizonte and Betim, Brazil by Nylen, William R.

“…Many argue that participatory democratic reforms can reverse trends toward civic disengagement. According to the empowerment thesis, participation in one…”
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Selling Neoliberalism: Brazil's Instituto Liberal by Nylen, William R.

“…In the 1980s more and more Latin American countries attempted to address daunting economic problems with variations on the so-called neoliberal theme. While…”
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The Politics of Local Participatory Democracy in Latin America: Institutions, Actors, and Interactions. By Françoise Montambeault. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. 288p. $65.00 cloth by Nylen, William R.

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Participatory Institutions in Latin America: The Next Generation of Scholarship by Nylen, William R.

“…Assessing four recent books on participatory budgeting and other participatory innovations in Latin America, this review article identifies these works as…”
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Alfred P. Montero, Brazilian Politics: Reforming a Democratic State in a Changing World (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006), pp. viii+167, £50.00, £16.99 pb; $59.95, $26.95 pb by NYLEN, WILLIAM R.

“…Montero eshes out this dilemma and organises his analysis around ve thematic areas that contain the principal challenges to the countrys ongoing eorts at…”
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Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality: Brazil's Contestado Rebellion, 1912-1916 by Nylen, William R.

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Brazilian Politics: Reforming a Democratic State in a Changing World by Nylen, William R.

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Rethinking Party Systems in the Third Wave of Democratization: The Case of Brazil by Nylen, William R.

“…"Rethinking Party Systems in the Third Wave of Democratization: The Case of Brazil" by Scott P. Mainwaring is reviewed…”
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Book Reviews|Comparative Politics: The Politics of Local Participatory Democracy in Latin America: Institutions, Actors, and Interactions. By Montambeault, Françoise . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. 288p. $65.00 cloth by Nylen, William R

“…[...]successful PDIs also increase the level of participants’ autonomy from the state and from political parties, from co-opted to autonomous. [...]the degree…”
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The Politics of Local Participatory Democracy in Latin America: Institutions, Actors, and Interactions. By Montambeault Françoise . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. 288p. $65.00 cloth by Nylen, William R.

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MAINWARING, SCOTT P.. "Rethinking Party Systems in the Third Wave of Democratization: The Case of Brazil" (Book Review) by Nylen, William R

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Participatory democracy versus elitist democracy: lessons from Brazil by Nylen, William R, Calcagnotto, G

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Africa, Asia, and Latin America by NYLEN, WILLIAM R.

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Africa, Asia, and Latin America -- Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality: Brazil's Contestado Rebellion, 1912-1916 by Todd A. Diacon by Nylen, William R

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DIACON, TODD A. "Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality: Brazil's Contestado Rebellion, 1912-1916" (Book Review) by Nylen, William R

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Rethinking party systems in the third wave of democratization: the case of Brazil by Mainwaring, Scott P, Nylen, William R

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