Coupled with extensive research, the book uses these stories to describe how the review came into being and what impacts it has on participants and the public.

A small book with great weight and urgency to it, this is both a history of democracy and a clarion call for change.

In Participatory Democracy in Brazil: Socioeconomic and Political Origins, J. Ricardo Tranjan recounts the creation of participatory democracy in Brazil.

This book explores the recent trend of enhancing the role of the people in constitutional change.

The book significantly enhances current scholarship, serving as a guide to existing research and identifying useful future research.

Using a highly original multi-method approach, this book examines a wide range of innovative institutional participatory processes across Spain, Italy and France.

However, this book also shows that citizens can become disappointed by the little decision-making power they are granted, as they leave the process often more cynical than before.