Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Third world urban poverty and political participation
  • Macrolevel contexts and participation : an analytic model
  • The political economy of Peru
  • Metropolitan Lima and its districts
  • Six poor barrios and their inhabitants
  • Modes of participation
  • Informal participation : grassroots involvement and state petitioning
  • Formal participation : the transition to democracy and economic crisis
  • Conclusions
  • Epilogue.