The value of participatory urban policy councils: engaging actors through policy communities

IF 2 2区经济学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environment and Urbanization Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI:10.1177/09562478211031705

Ana Paula Pimentel Walker, A. Friendly

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Abstract

Despite considerable literature exploring Brazil’s participatory management, less academic attention focuses on Brazil’s public policy councils (conselhos gestores de políticas públicas), which are permanent political-institutional structures on a range of policy issues mediating between society and the state. This article analyses urban policy councils in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul State, and Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State, considering whether this participatory planning tool advances democratic inclusion. We approach participatory planning through the lens of policy communities. Through these cases, we demonstrate that these two councils do not, in fact, enable all those affected and interested to influence and define policies. Yet even if the views of the most disenfranchised do not ultimately prevail, these urban policy councils contribute to publicizing urban policy issues and democratizing the range of stakeholders that gain access to the policy community. We conclude by highlighting suggestions for improving public policy councils as mechanisms for participatory planning.

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参与式城市政策委员会的价值:通过政策社区吸引行动者

尽管有大量文献探讨了巴西的参与式管理，但学术界较少关注巴西的公共政策委员会（conselhos gestores de políticas públicas），它们是在社会和国家之间调解一系列政策问题的永久性政治体制结构。本文分析了南里奥格兰德州阿雷格里港和里约热内卢州尼特罗伊的城市政策委员会，考虑这种参与式规划工具是否促进了民主包容。我们通过政策团体的视角来进行参与式规划。通过这些案例，我们证明，事实上，这两个委员会并不能让所有受影响和感兴趣的人影响和制定政策。然而，即使最被剥夺权利者的观点最终没有占上风，这些城市政策委员会也有助于宣传城市政策问题，并使接触政策界的利益相关者民主化。最后，我们强调了改进公共政策委员会作为参与性规划机制的建议。

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Environment and Urbanization Multiple-

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7.50

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期刊介绍： Environment and Urbanization aims to provide an effective means for the exchange of research findings, ideas and information in the fields of human settlements and environment among researchers, activists and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in low- and middle-income nations and between these and researchers, international agency staff, students and teachers in high-income nations. Most of the papers it publishes are written by authors from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Papers may be submitted in French, Spanish or Portuguese, as well as English - and if accepted for publication, the journal arranges for their translation into English. The journal is also unusual in the proportion of its papers that are written by practitioners.