Book

Spaces For Change? The Politics of Citizen Participation in New Democratic Arenas

Published on 1 January 2006

This book studies one of the greatest challenges of our age: 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, budgeting processes 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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Honorary Associate

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published by
Zed Books
authors
Cornwall, A.
isbn
1 84277 553 7

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