Intermediation and Representation in Latin America

Gisela Zaremberg is Research Professor at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Mexico.Valeria Guarneros-Meza is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy at De Montfort University, UK. Adrian Gurza-Lavalle is Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

• 1. Introduction. Beyond Elections: Representation Circuits and Political Intermediation .- 2. Political Intermediation and Public Policy in Brazil: Councils and Conferences in the Policy Spheres of Health and Women’s Rights .- 3. Establishing Intermediaries in Developing Mechanisms of Citizen Participation in La Silsa, Caracas, Venezuela .- 4. Political Rights and Intermediation: Municipal Decentralization and Democratic Innovation in Uruguay .- 5. Bolivia: “Social Control” as the Fourth State Power 1994-2015 .- 6. Citizen Security in Mexico: Examining Municipal Bureaucracy From the View of the Intermediation-Representation Debate .- 7. Conflicts of Representation and Redistribution in the Mexican Labour World .- 8. The Political-Legal Representation Circuit of Human Rights Politics .- 9. Conclusions and Future Research Agenda.

“Intermediation and Representation in Latin America is an inspiring and very opportune book, which helps to understand the transformations faced by representative democracy in Latin America. The volume offers directions for students and researchers in order to analyse the changes promoted by the wave of democratic innovations through a new lens.” (Yanina Welp, Democratization, Vol. 25 (5), August, 2017)