This qualitative study examined the participatory experiences of people with an intellectual disability as members of government disability advisory bodies in Australia. These forums are one of the strategies adopted by governments to enable people with an intellectual disability to participate in the formulation of social policy. Such opportunities have arisen from progressive policy that frames people with an intellectual disability as full citizens with equal rights to inclusion and participation in society. Little research has considered how people with an intellectual disability experience the participatory opportunities that have grown from this recognition of their rights. This reflects the more traditional focus on their status and participation as consumers and service users. The central question of this study is how people with an intellectual disability experience participation in government advisory bodies, and how such forums can be inclusive and meaningful. This study positions people with an intellectual disability as the experts about their own experiences by relying primarily on their first person accounts of their experiences. Ethnographic and case study methods were employed including in-depth interviews with the central participants, document analysis, observation of the work of the advisory bodies and interviews with others involved in advisory bodies. Analysis led to the development of a typology of participation that describes the political and personal orientations people have to participation. The study found that structures and the processes used by advisory bodies can mediate people�s experiences; however more significantly, the experiences of people with intellectual disability are shaped by their perception of how they are regarded by others. Central to this is the efficacy of support based on the development of collegiate relationships, similar to the notion of civic friendship described by Reinders (2002), rather than support that is solely focussed on tangible accommodations The study concludes that citizen participation bodies have not fully recognised the personal and political potential of members with an intellectual disability. It presents evidence that people with an intellectual disability are capable of this form of participation, can provide legitimate and informed perspectives on policy and can engage meaningfully, given full recognition of their capacity to participate as well as structures and processes that enable this.

This qualitative study examined the participatory experiences of people with an intellectual disability as members of government disability advisory bodies in Australia. These forums are one of the strategies adopted by governments to enable people with an intellectual disability to participate in the formulation of social policy. Such opportunities have arisen from progressive policy that frames people with an intellectual disability as full citizens with equal rights to inclusion and participation in society. Little research has considered how people with an intellectual disability experience the participatory opportunities that have grown from this recognition of their rights. This reflects the more traditional focus on their status and participation as consumers and service users. The central question of this study is how people with an intellectual disability experience participation in government advisory bodies, and how such forums can be inclusive and meaningful. This study positions people with an intellectual disability as the experts about their own experiences by relying primarily on their first person accounts of their experiences. Ethnographic and case study methods were employed including in-depth interviews with the central participants, document analysis, observation of the work of the advisory bodies and interviews with others involved in advisory bodies. Analysis led to the development of a typology of participation that describes the political and personal orientations people have to participation. The study found that structures and the processes used by advisory bodies can mediate people�s experiences; however more significantly, the experiences of people with intellectual disability are shaped by their perception of how they are regarded by others. Central to this is the efficacy of support based on the development of collegiate relationships, similar to the notion of civic friendship described by Reinders (2002), rather than support that is solely focussed on tangible accommodations The study concludes that citizen participation bodies have not fully recognised the personal and political potential of members with an intellectual disability. It presents evidence that people with an intellectual disability are capable of this form of participation, can provide legitimate and informed perspectives on policy and can engage meaningfully, given full recognition of their capacity to participate as well as structures and processes that enable this.

This research provides one account of the complex relationship between differentiated experiences of deprivation and the dominant poverty construct in the Jamaican context. It is based on research conducted over a period of nine months in a Jamaican 'squatter' community, Windsor, in the Parish of St. Ann. The study is organised into two 'positional' chapters (conceptual framework and methodology) and four direct 'response' chapters that demonstrate the ways in which the official poverty approach (from concept to policy) resonates with the living experiences of individuals. The 'response' chapters step back from debates on the measurement of poverty so as to critically and reflexively consider the construct's conceptual and definitional antinomies. This is done through: (i) an excavation of a partial social history of poverty discourses in Jamaica; (ii) an evaluation of problems with knowledge production in the participatory method; (iii) an examination of the implications of the abstraction of the poor from spatial relations; and (iv) an exploration of different ways in which individuals 'picture' living in their surroundings. The conclusion drawn is that it is necessary to begin engaging in a multidisciplinary project which accounts for difference within the poverty construct. This is because, insofar as it is possible, the removal of the most extreme forms of deprivation is not in itself sufficient for the eradication of the social relations that give rise to these privative 'conditions'. There instead needs to be critical engagement with relations of deprivation as resident in the social body as a whole in conceptualising poverty.

nÃo hà / Esta Tese problematiza as articulaÃÃes entre planejamento urbano, democracia e participaÃÃo popular, atravÃs do caso da revisÃo do Plano Diretor de Fortaleza, entre 2003 e 2008. Em um contexto de lutas e inovaÃÃes democrÃticas, essa experiÃncia de revisÃo do Plano Diretor de Fortaleza adquiriu visibilidade nacional atravÃs das demandas por participaÃÃo popular. A revisÃo foi iniciada sob a GestÃo Juraci MagalhÃes (PMDB) (2001-2004), sendo produzido e enviado à CÃmara Municipal de Fortaleza o Plano Diretor de Desenvolvimento Urbano e Ambiental de Fortaleza â PDDUA/FOR. PorÃm, o Projeto de Lei nÃo foi à votaÃÃo. A GestÃo de Luizianne Lins (PT), eleita para dois mandatos consecutivos (2005-2008; 2009-2012), reiniciou a revisÃo, gerando o Plano Diretor Participativo de Fortaleza â PDPFor, aprovado e sancionado no inÃcio de 2009. Esta Tese analisa as metodologias utilizadas na revisÃo, as proposiÃÃes e os conteÃdos polÃtico-tÃcnicos gerados. Para tanto, foram pesquisados documentos, efetuou-se observaÃÃo direta e entrevistas parcialmente estruturadas. TambÃm foram analisadas as AudiÃncias PÃblicas realizadas na CÃmara Municipal de Fortaleza. A Tese estrutura-se na IntroduÃÃo, em dez capÃtulos e nas ConsideraÃÃes Finais. A IntroduÃÃo apresenta a contextualizaÃÃo do tema e a problematizaÃÃo, evidenciando as questÃes da pesquisa e o desenho da investigaÃÃo. O CapÃtulo 2 discute a Teoria da Democracia e aspectos da representaÃÃo e da participaÃÃo. O CapÃtulo 3 fundamenta uma sociologia do campo do planejamento urbano em Fortaleza, efetuando uma apresentaÃÃo preliminar do campo e dos agentes sociais participantes do processo. O CapÃtulo 4 analisa a gÃnese e a evoluÃÃo do campo do planejamento urbano no Brasil, destacando caracterÃsticas, tensÃes e continuidades que o compÃem. O CapÃtulo 5 apresenta as principais matrizes que atualmente estruturam o campo do planejamento urbano no paÃs: tecnoburocrÃtica, estratÃgica e da reforma urbana. O CapÃtulo 6 caracteriza a evoluÃÃo territorial e do planejamento urbano em Fortaleza. Os CapÃtulos 7 e 8 analisam os aspectos processuais e substantivos da revisÃo do Plano Diretor de Fortaleza sob a gestÃo Juraci MagalhÃes. Os CapÃtulos 9, 10 e 11 analisam os aspectos processuais e substantivos da revisÃo do Plano Diretor de Fortaleza sob a gestÃo Luizianne Lins. Por fim, as ConsideraÃÃes Finais sintetizam os resultados da pesquisa, evidenciando algumas conclusÃes e hipÃteses analÃticas. / This Thesis it analyzes the bonds between urban planning, democracy and popular participation, through the case of the revision of the Master Plan of Fortaleza, between 2003 and 2008. In a context of fights and democratic innovations, this experience of revision of the Master Plan of Fortaleza acquired national visibility through the demands for popular participation. The revision was initiated under GestÃo Juraci MagalhÃes (PMDB) (2001-2004), being produced and envoy to the City Council of Fortaleza the Master Plan of Urban and Ambient Development of Fortaleza - PDDUA/FOR. However, the Project of Law was not to the voting. The Management of Luizianne Lins (PT), elect for two consecutive mandates (2005-2008; 2009-2012), restarted the revision at the beginning, generating the Master Plan Participativo of Fortaleza - PDPFor, approved and transformed into law of 2009. This Thesis analyzes the methodologies used in the generated revision, proposals and contents politician-technician. For this, documents had been searched, effected field research and interviews and analyzed the Audiences in the City council of Fortaleza. The Thesis if structure in the Introduction, ten chapters and the Conclusions. The Introduction it presents the questions and the drawing of the research. Chapter 2 argues the Theory of the Democracy and aspects of the representation and the participation. Chapter 3 it develops a sociology of the field of the urban planning on Fortaleza, effecting a preliminary presentation of the field and the participant social agents of the process. Chapter 4 analyzes the sprouting and the evolution of the field of the urban planning in Brazil, detaching characteristic, tensions and continuities compose that it. Chapter 5 presents the main matrices that currently structuralize the field of the urban planning in the country: technique-bureaucratic, strategical and of the urban reform. Chapter 6 characterizes the territorial evolution and of the urban planning in Fortaleza. Chapters 7 and 8 analyze the procedural and substantive aspects of the revision of the Master Plan of Fortaleza under the management Juraci MagalhÃes. Chapters 9, 10 and 11 analyze the procedural and substantive aspects of the revision of the Master Plan of Fortaleza under the management Luizianne Lins. Finally, the Conclusions synthecizes results and hypotheses of the research.

Esta dissertação analisa limites, possibilidades e riscos do processo participativo de criação do Sistema Municipal de Cultura de Três Corações, com base na visão de nove lideranças da comunidade que se envolveram no movimento pedindo a implantação de tal política pública. A partir da releitura de teorias sobre a participação e da análise de conteúdo de entrevistas semiestruturadas, gerou-se o entendimento de que o processo, liderado pela sociedade civil, busca a autopromoção de agentes culturais e a implementação de regras democráticas de jogo, mas enfrenta como limitações e obstáculos as transferências de rensponsabilidades do poder público, o ônus da participação, a falta de efetividade e os assistencialismos. Apresenta-se, ainda, o risco da criação de mecanismos de participação gerencial, reduzindo o papel político do Sistema. Diante dos resultados, apresenta-se uma breve reflexão acerca da necessidade da interlocução entre movimentos participativos que cobram a implantação de políticas públicas. / This dissertation analyses limits, possibilities ans risks of the participatory process of creation of the Culture Municipal System of Três Corações city, based on the vision of nine leaderships citizens of the comunity who got envolved with the movement that asks this public policy. From the rereading of participation theories and the content analysis of nine half-structured interviews, it was generated the understanding that the proccess, owned by civil society, looks for cultural agents self-promotion and the implementation of democratic rules, but faces as limits and obstacles the responsability transfers by public power, the custs of participation, the lack of effectiveness and assistencialism. There is, yet, the risk of creating mechanisms of managerial participation, reducing the culture system political rule. The results allows a reflection around the need of interlocution between participatory moviments that ask for public policies implementation.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T14:32:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Lucia Salgado Cordeiro dos Santos.pdf: 958585 bytes, checksum: 03d41520b3d505ad4f3c34110ea53cc8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-25 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The research focus was understand the characteristics of family involvement in school, from the reforms introduced by assumpctions of autonomy and decentralization, this ideology of the reforms of the 1990s, the neoliberal context, and identify some curricula involved in the relationship with family school. Study subjects in this qualitative study were family members of students in a public school in the west of the city of Sao Paulo. To achieve the proposed objectives, we applied questionnaires to family members present at meetings of parents and teachers in classes in all grades of elementary school and analyzed the responses of parents of students in a class for each grade. Of these, six mothers and two fathers of students were interviewed. The analysis of data obtained indicated that the participation of families in the study does not promote an emphasis on the autonomy of school management and does not approach the families of the school curriculum, a term unfamiliar. The modes of participation of the family are more focused on the strategies they adopt to rid their children of urban risks, especially, violence and involvement with the delict / A pesquisa teve por foco compreender características da participação da família na escola, a partir das reformas que tiveram por pressupostos a autonomia e a descentralização, ideário presente nas reformas dos anos 1990, no contexto neoliberal, e identificar alguns aspectos curriculares envolvidos na relação da família com a escola. Os sujeitos pesquisados nesse estudo qualitativo foram os familiares de alunos de uma escola municipal na zona Oeste da cidade de São Paulo. Para atingir os objetivos propostos, aplicamos questionários aos familiares presentes nas reuniões de pais e mestres de turmas de todas as séries do Ensino Fundamental e analisamos as respostas de pais de alunos de uma turma de cada série. Desses, seis mães e dois pais de alunos foram entrevistados. A análise do material obtido indicou que a participação das famílias analisadas não promove ênfase na autonomia da gestão escolar e não aproxima as famílias do currículo escolar, termo que desconhecem. Os modos de participação da família estão mais voltados às estratégias que adotam para livrar seus filhos dos riscos urbanos, sobretudo, da violência e envolvimento com o crime

Several studies suggest that the diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in developing countries (DCs) can help such countries achieve national development goals - especially if accompanied by appropriate government policies designed to regulate and promote the use and the diffusion of ICTs in the national context. Over the past few years 'ICT policy' has thus become something worthy of academic attention, in particular in the ambit of ICT-for-development (ICT4D) literature. Scholarly studies on the subject have so far focused however primarily on policy content, and have often been prescriptive and/or evaluative in nature. Relatively less attention has been paid instead to the processes by which ICT policy is made in DCs - a lacuna reflected also in the relative scarcity, in the realm of ICT4D literature, of detailed theoretical frameworks with which to study ICT policymaking practice in DCs. This study intends to help fill this lacuna, by proposing an innovative framework for the analysis of ICT policy processes in DCs, and subjecting such a framework to a first 'proof of concept', through its application to a particular case (ICT policymaking in Uganda). In recognition of the importance of the cognitive aspects of policy practice, the framework proposed is interpretive in nature, and is organised around three 'movements', or steps: an analysis of the linguistic and non-linguistic constructs employed by policy actors to articulate discourse on ICT policymaking; an analysis of the key discourses around ICT policy constructed by policy actors in specific settings; and an analysis of the composition and the strength of the 'alliances', or coalitions, of actors that construct and propagate specific discourses in such settings. The ultimate purpose of this type of analysis is to understand how specific discourses on, or 'versions' of the ICT policy process gain particular purchase and acceptance in given national settings, thereby providing ICT policy actors with elements for reflection on the practices they are involved in. The framework proposed is particularly innovative in that integrates elements derived from mainstream political science and policy analysis literature - thus going some way in solidifying theorization in the ambit of ICT4D research. The study draws conclusions at two levels: at case level, findings indicate that Ugandan discourse around ICT policymaking appears to be constrained by the existence of a powerful, overall political discourse that defines ICT policy as necessarily 'participative'; at the level of theory and method, findings suggest that the framework proposed appears to be a viable and useful one for research on ICT policymaking practice in DCs.

MACHADO,Eduardo Gomes. Planejamento urbano, democracia e participação popular: o caso da revisão do Plano Diretor de Fortaleza (2003-2008). 2010. 451f. Tese (Doutorado em Sociologia) – Universidade Federal do CEARÁ,Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Programa de Pós- Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2010. / Submitted by Liliane oliveira (morena.liliane@hotmail.com) on 2011-11-24T14:11:47Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese de EDUARDO GOMES MACHADO final seguro 2011.pdf: 2800080 bytes, checksum: 3d4309732e0e7af0153ed908b07a4a52 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2011-11-28T12:34:14Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese de EDUARDO GOMES MACHADO final seguro 2011.pdf: 2800080 bytes, checksum: 3d4309732e0e7af0153ed908b07a4a52 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2011-11-28T12:34:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese de EDUARDO GOMES MACHADO final seguro 2011.pdf: 2800080 bytes, checksum: 3d4309732e0e7af0153ed908b07a4a52 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / This thesis it analyzes the bonds between urban planning, democracy and popular participation, through the case of the revision of the Master Plan of Fortaleza, between 2003 and 2008. In a context of fights and democratic innovations, this experience of revision of the Master Plan of Fortaleza acquired national visibility through the demands for popular participation. The revision was initiated under Gestão Juraci Magalhães (PMDB) (2001-2004), being produced and envoy to the City Council of Fortaleza the Master Plan of Urban and Ambient Development of Fortaleza - PDDUA/FOR. However, the Project of Law was not to the voting. The Management of Luizianne Lins (PT), elect for two consecutive mandates (2005-2008; 2009-2012), restarted the revision at the beginning, generating the Master Plan Participativo of Fortaleza - PDPFor, approved and transformed into law of 2009. This Thesis analyzes the methodologies used in the generated revision, proposals and contents politician-technician. For this, documents had been searched, effected field research and interviews and analyzed the Audiences in the City council of Fortaleza. The Thesis if structure in the Introduction, ten chapters and the Conclusions. The Introduction it presents the questions and the drawing of the research. Chapter 2 argues the Theory of the Democracy and aspects of the representation and the participation. Chapter 3 it develops a sociology of the field of the urban planning on Fortaleza, effecting a preliminary presentation of the field and the participant social agents of the process. Chapter 4 analyzes the sprouting and the evolution of the field of the urban planning in Brazil, detaching characteristic, tensions and continuities compose that it. Chapter 5 presents the main matrices that currently structuralize the field of the urban planning in the country: technique-bureaucratic, strategical and of the urban reform. Chapter 6 characterizes the territorial evolution and of the urban planning in Fortaleza. Chapters 7 and 8 analyze the procedural and substantive aspects of the revision of the Master Plan of Fortaleza under the management Juraci Magalhães. Chapters 9, 10 and 11 analyze the procedural and substantive aspects of the revision of the Master Plan of Fortaleza under the management Luizianne Lins. Finally, the Conclusions synthecizes results and hypotheses of the research. / Esta tese problematiza as articulações entre planejamento urbano, democracia e participação popular, através do caso da revisão do Plano Diretor de Fortaleza, entre 2003 e 2008. Em um contexto de lutas e inovações democráticas, essa experiência de revisão do Plano Diretor de Fortaleza adquiriu visibilidade nacional através das demandas por participação popular. A revisão foi iniciada sob a Gestão Juraci Magalhães (PMDB) (2001-2004), sendo produzido e enviado à Câmara Municipal de Fortaleza o Plano Diretor de Desenvolvimento Urbano e Ambiental de Fortaleza – PDDUA/FOR. Porém, o Projeto de Lei não foi à votação. A Gestão de Luizianne Lins (PT), eleita para dois mandatos consecutivos (2005-2008; 2009-2012), reiniciou a revisão, gerando o Plano Diretor Participativo de Fortaleza – PDPFor, aprovado e sancionado no início de 2009. Esta Tese analisa as metodologias utilizadas na revisão, as proposições e os conteúdos político-técnicos gerados. Para tanto, foram pesquisados documentos, efetuou-se observação direta e entrevistas parcialmente estruturadas. Também foram analisadas as Audiências Públicas realizadas na Câmara Municipal de Fortaleza. A Tese estrutura-se na Introdução, em dez capítulos e nas Considerações Finais. A Introdução apresenta a contextualização do tema e a problematização, evidenciando as questões da pesquisa e o desenho da investigação. O Capítulo 2 discute a Teoria da Democracia e aspectos da representação e da participação. O Capítulo 3 fundamenta uma sociologia do campo do planejamento urbano em Fortaleza, efetuando uma apresentação preliminar do campo e dos agentes sociais participantes do processo. O Capítulo 4 analisa a gênese e a evolução do campo do planejamento urbano no Brasil, destacando características, tensões e continuidades que o compõem. O Capítulo 5 apresenta as principais matrizes que atualmente estruturam o campo do planejamento urbano no país: tecnoburocrática, estratégica e da reforma urbana. O Capítulo 6 caracteriza a evolução territorial e do planejamento urbano em Fortaleza. Os Capítulos 7 e 8 analisam os aspectos processuais e substantivos da revisão do Plano Diretor de Fortaleza sob a gestão Juraci Magalhães. Os Capítulos 9, 10 e 11 analisam os aspectos processuais e substantivos da revisão do Plano Diretor de Fortaleza sob a gestão Luizianne Lins. Por fim, as Considerações Finais sintetizam os resultados da pesquisa, evidenciando algumas conclusões e hipóteses analíticas.

The thesis "Participation of Sokolov Inhabitants in the Municipal Civil Administration" deals with participation and political culture in the town and gives us results to what measure both participial political culture and collective social capital influence the participation of inhabitants. There was a relationship of participation, trust, bridging social capital and a participatory political culture demonstrated by relational analysis in this thesis. There are formulated recommendations for local government based on gained knowledge. These recommendations state how to use the participation of inhabitants in city government more effectively.