Bücher von Tulia G. (University of Pennsylvania) Falleti

Governments and international organizations have promoted community participation in public health since the late 1970s. We lack comparative studies of these participatory institutions in public health. This Element proposes a conceptualization of programmatic participation and distinguishes between two types, monitoring and policy-making.

Challenging the conventional wisdom that decentralization reforms put more power in the hands of governors and mayors, Falleti draws on extensive fieldwork, in-depth interviews, archival records, and quantitative data to explain the different trajectories of decentralization processes in post-developmental Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, and their markedly divergent outcomes.