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Using new empirical case studies from around the world, this book illustrates how alternative forms of political mobilization - protests, social participation, activism, litigation & lobbying - engage with the formal institutions of representative democracy in ways that constitute the very essen...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Coelho, Vera Schattan P., Von Lieres, Bettina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Zed, 2010.
Colección:Claiming citizenship.
Temas:
Political participation > Case studies.
Democracy > Case studies.
Participation politique > Études de cas.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Democracy
Political participation
Politiskt deltagande.
Proteströrelser.
Demokrati.
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Vera Schattan P. Coelho & Bettina von Lieres
  • Part I: Mobilizing Society
  • 1. Changing the 'habits of the heart': development NGOs and the struggle for democratic values in Bangladesh / Naila Kabeer and Simeen Mahmud
  • 2. Have NGO Political Empowerment Programs at the Grassroots Level Contributed to Deepening of Democracy in Kenya? / Celestine Nyamu Musembi
  • 3. The Nucleo Representativo das Associações (NRA) do Dombe Grande, Angola: building democracy and citizenship at the local level / Idaci Ferreira and Sandra Roque
  • 4. How Deep is Deep democracy? Global Citizenship in Local spaces / Steven Robins
  • 5. How styles of activism influence social participation and democratic deliberation / Arilson Favareto, Yumi Gonçalves, Frederico menino, Carolina Galvanese, Vera S.P. Coelho
  • 6. Passivity or Protest? Understanding the dimensions of Mobilization on Rights to Services in Khayelitsha, Cape Town / Lisa Thompson and Ndodana Nleya
  • 7. The Role of Citizen Action in the Consolidation of Democracy in Nigeria / Jibrin Ibrahim and Samuel Egwu
  • Part II: Bridging State and Society
  • 8. Deepening Democracy in South Africa: Citizen Mobilization and Ward Committees / Bettina von Lieres
  • 9. The Making and Unmaking of a New Democratic Space / Andrea Cornwall
  • 10. The Infinite Agenda of Social Justice: Dalit Mobilization in the Institutions of Local Governance / Ranjita Mohanty
  • 11. "We got it to our heads that we should do the job of the state": the Indigenous Peoples' Movement and the Health System in Acre, Brazil / Alex Shankland
  • 12. Public Involvement and Social Mobilization: A variable sum game? / Vera S.P. Coelho, Alexandre Ferraz, Fabiola Fanti, Meire Ribeiro
  • 13. Dynamics of Political Change and transformation: Civil Society, Governance and the Culture of Politics in Kenya / Duncan Okello.

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