DEMOCRACY IN THE MAKING:MUNICIPAL REFORMS, CIVIL SOCIETY,AND THE BRAZILIAN WORKERS' PARTY -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER OUTLINE -- DECENTRALISATION, TRANSPARENCY,AND PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY -- MUNICIPAL REFORMS IN BRAZIL -- KEY CONCEPTS -- Mediated Citizenship -- Patronage, Clientelism and Personalism -- 'Traditional' Traditions -- THE CASE STUDIES -- METHODOLOGY -- CHANGE AND CONTINUITY:BRAZILIAN MUNICIPAL REFORMS IN CONTEXT -- REFORMISM BY TRADITIONAL MEANS -- The PT at the Crossroads -- ITABUNA -- TWO-CLASS SOCIETY -- MONOCULTURE, CRISIS AND THE EXACERBATIONOF MASS POVERTY -- MUNICIPAL POLITICS -- ELITE VERSUS PARTICIPATORY POLITICS -- MEDIATED CITIZENSHIP AND POPULAR POLITICS -- DEMOCRATIC SOCIAL IMAGINARY AND PRAGMATISM -- COMMUNAL POLITICS AND POLITICAL NEUTRALITY -- Communal Activism, Ideology, and Political Ambitions -- NEIGHBOURHOOD ASSOCIATIONS AND CIVIC MOVEMENTS -- Encantarte -- PRUNE -- CONCLUSION -- SÃO PAULO -- SÃO PAULO'S PT -- ALLIANCE POLITICS: A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD -- THE FREGUESIA DO Ó AND PIRITUBA: ADMINISTRATIVE SHARINGAND POLITICAL CLOSURE -- SÃO PAULO'S OP -- HEALTH -- EDUCATION -- HOUSING -- TOWARDS A CONSULTATIVE OP -- DEMOCRATIC BRICOLAGE: THE FUSING OF TRADITIONAL ANDMODERN IN THE CASE OF SÃO PAULO'S OP -- THE OP'S UNEXPECTED POPULARITY -- CONCLUSION -- PORTO ALEGRE -- THE RISE OF PORTO ALEGRE'S PT -- PORTO ALEGRE'S OP: AN OVERVIEW -- PORTO ALEGRE'S OP ANDTHE PT'S ALTERNATIVE POLITICAL COALITION -- PORTO ALEGRE'S OP AS PARTICIPATORY,DELIBERATIVE POLICY NETWORK -- THE OP AS TECHNO-DEMOCRATIC MEDIATION PROCESS -- THE OP AS A PUBLIC SPHERE -- PARTICIPATORY POLICIES AS A SYMBOLIC CHALLENGE TOTRADITIONAL IDENTITIES -- THE OP AS A SCHOOL OF CITIZENSHIP -- CYCLIC MOBILISATION AND REFLUX -- NEW OP INITIATIVES AND BEYOND -- CONCLUSION.

'GENUINE' DEMOCRACY:CIVIL SOCIETY, THE WORKERS'PARTY AND BEYOND -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.