GURGEL, Cláudia. Social Participation as a Mechanism for the (re)Construction of Democracy: Together, Portugal and Brazil.: Participatory budgeting as an enabler for urban transformation in democracy. []. , 26, pp.67-88. ISSN 2182-3030.  https://doi.org/10.7749/citiescommunitiesterritories.jun2013.026.art04.

This paper begins by analyzing a few questions about participatory democracy and citizenship in a broad manner, in Portugal and Brazil, in present times, inserting the Participatory Budgeting in this context and its institutional development. In a further stage, it presents considerations concerning experiences of Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil and the Municipality of Cascais, Lisbon, Portugal.

: Democracy and Citizenship; Participatory Budgeting; Cascais and Porto Alegre; Portugal and Brazil.

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