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Peter P. Houtzager - Research Fellow

Governance
T: +44 (0)1273 915709
E: p.houtzager@ids.ac.uk

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Administrator:
Caroline Martin

Thematic Expertise:
Citizenship; Governance; Collective Action; Politics and Power; Rights; Social Protection.

Geographic Expertise:
Latin America and the Caribbean.

Dr Peter Houtzager received his PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and has been a fellow at IDS since 1999. He is a political scientist with broad training in comparative politics and historical-institutional analysis. Areas of specialisation include: urban governance; citizen-state relations; varieties of civil society and democratisation processes; social network analysis and multi-methods research; social movement theory, and political development in Latin America.

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Widgets or Watchdogs? Conceptual Explorations in Social Accountability

 Public Management Review 14.2 (2012)
Houtzager, P. P. and Joshi, A.

The Political Construction of Civil Societies (A Construção Política das Sociedades Civis)

In 'O Horizonte da' (2011)
Gurza Lavalle, A.

Associations, Active Citizenship, and the Quality of Democracy in Brazil and Mexico

 Theory and Society 40.1 (2011)
Houtzager, P.P. and Acharya, A.

The Long Arc of Pragmatic Economic and Social Rights Advocacy

 In 'Stones of Hope: How African activists reclaim human rights to challenge global poverty' (2010)
White, L. and Perelman, J.

Civil Society's Claims to Political Representation in Brazil

 Studies in Comparative International Development 45.1 (2010)
Houtzager, P. P. and Gurza Lavalle, A.

Participatory Governance and the Challenge of Assumed Representation in Brazil

 IDS Working Paper 321 (2009)
Houtzager, P. P. and Gurza Lavalle, A.

State Reform and Social Accountability

 IDS Bulletin 38.6 (2008)
Houtzager, P. P., Joshi, A. and Gurza Lavalle, A.

Associations and the Exercise of Citizenship in New Democracies: Evidence from São Paulo and Mexico City

IDS Working Paper 285 (2007)
Houtzager, P. P., Acharya, A. and Gurza Lavalle, A.

Associations, Citizenship, and the Quality of Democracy

 (2006)
Houtzager, P. P., Acharya, A. and Gurza Lavalle, A.

Representação Política Mediante Organizações Civis: A Construção de Legitimidade no Contexto da Pós-transição

 Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais 21.60 (2006)
Castello, G., Houtzager, P. P. and Lavalle, A. G.

Democracia, Pluralização da Representação e Sociedade Civil

 Lua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Política 67 (2006)
Castello, G., Houtzager, P. P. and Lavalle, A. G.

Variedades de Sociedad Civil: la construcción política de las organizaciones civiles', paper presented at the 3rd Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencia Política, UNICAMP, Brazil, 4-6 September

 (2006)
Gurza Lavalle, A, Houtzager, P.P. and Castello, G.

Varieties of Civil Society and Patterns of Political Representation in Contemporary São Paulo and Mexico City', paper presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Associação Brasileira de Ciencia Política, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 26-29 July

 (2006)
Gurza Lavalle, A, Houtzager, P.P. and Castello, G

Exploring the politics of poverty reduction: how are the poorest represented?

 World Development Special Edition 33.6 (2005)
Houtzager, P. P. Gurza Lavalle, A. and Acharya, A.

Beyond Comparative Anecdotalism: Lesson on Civil Society and Participation from Sao Paulo, Brazil

 World Development 33 (2005)
Houtzager, P. P.. Gurza Lavalle, A. and Acharya, A.

Ampliação da Representação Política e Sociedade Civil', Lua Nova – Revista de Cultura e Política, special edition on Political Representation.

 (2005)
Gurza Lavalle, A. and Houtzager, P. P.

The Movement of the Landless (MST) and the Juridical Field in Brazil

 IDS Working Paper 248 (2005)
Houtzager, P.P.

In Whose Name? Political Representation and Civil Organisations in Brazil

 IDS Working Paper 249 (2005)
Lavalle, A.G., Houtzager, P. P. and Castello, G.

Changing Paths: International Development and the New Politics of Inclusion

 (2004)
Houtzager, P. and Moore, M.

Civil Society Representation in the Participatory Budget and Deliberative Councils of São Paulo, Brazil

 IDS Bulletin 34.1 (2004)
Houtzager, P. P.
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