ABSTRACT
Brazil has been an emblematic case of social participation which has drawn international interest. Participatory institutions have been introduced and broadened as of the redemocratization process and the Federal Constitution of 1988, which has transformed Brazil into an institutionalized social participation experience lab. The international prominence of the Brazilian social participation policies were due the effects of its experiences, its capacity of reinventing the way policies are produced - through the inclusion in political matters of its citizens and its society in general -, the international activism of the “Participation Ambassadors” and the reckoning of international organism and other actors. This chapter aims to present a historic outlook of the participatory innovations in Brazil and its diffusion until the year of 2014, deepening at some specific institutions, as the Participatory Budgeting, the Councils and the Conferences.
