“In 'Participatory Democracy Revisited' (2012) Pateman distanced participatory democracy, which challenges authority structures, from one-off deliberative mini-publics, pointed to Porto Alegre's participatory budget as a lasting participatory institution, and observed that most recent expansion of participation 'does not disturb existing institutions'.”

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