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Popular versus Liberal Democracy in Nicaragua and Tanzania

Published on 1 January 1998

This article takes issue with those analyses of ‘developmental democracy’ which treat popular participation as a clamorous inconvenience to be managed in the interests of economic efficiency. Instead it asks what follows from prioritizing participation both as a defining feature of democracy, and as an integral part of what is meant by development.

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Robin Luckham

Emeritus Fellow

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Luckham, R.
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Democratization, volume 5, issue 3

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