Fri, April 29, 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Buchanan C403 (Seminar Room)
Prof. Lígia Lüchmann will be giving a talk entitled, “Two models of participatory democracy in Brazil: the management councils and the participatory budget.” Coffee and snacks will be provided. Dr. Lígia Lüchmann is a visiting associate professor at UBC’s Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions.
Lígia Helena Hahn Lüchmann is a professor of the Department of Sociology and Political Science and researcher of the Nucleus of Research in Social Movements at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). In her doctoral thesis (Social Sciences at Universidade de Campinas – Unicamp, 2002) she analyzes some possibilities and limits of the experience of the Participatory Budget in Porto Alegre as an occurrence of deliberative democracy, pointing out the main factors for the success of this shared model, such as: political will, local associative tradition and institutional design. She has been researching civil society, more specifically the relationship with the State in the management of public politics through, in the case of Brazilian reality, Management Councils and experiences of the Participatory Budget, and has now been researching the new configurations of associativism.