Spaces for Change? : The Politics of Citizen Participation in New Democratic Arenas Paperback / softback
Edited by Andrea Cornwall, Vera Schatten Coelho
Part of the Claiming Citizenship series
Paperback / softback
Description
This book addresses one of the greatest challenges of our age: that of building democratic polities where all can realize their rights and claim substantive citizenship.
In recent years, innovations in governance have created a plethora of new democratic spaces in many countries.
Yet there remains a gap between the intention to institutionalize participation and the reality of exclusion of poorer and marginalized citizens.
Through case studies of a diversity of institutions - hospital facility boards in South Africa, a national-level deliberative process in Canada, sectoral management councils and community groups in Brazil, India, Mexico and Bangladesh, participatory budgeting in Argentina, NGO-created forums in Angola and Bangladesh, community forums in the UK, and new intermediary spaces created by social movements in South Africa - contributors examine how the democratic potential of these new spaces might be enhanced.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:30/11/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9781842775530
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:30/11/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9781842775530
