Subject(s): Democratization -- Empowered participation of governance -- Democracy -- Case studies -- Participation, activism and politics: Porto Alegre -- Democracy and development : decentralized planning in Kerala -- Deliberative democracy , Chicago style : Governance in policing and public education -- Habitat conservation planning -- Commentaries -- Ecologically sustainable democracy -- Cycles of reform in Porto Alegre and Madison -- Power and reason -- Countervailing power in empowered participatory governance