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1 October 2010
Published by: Stanford University Press
This volume’s Introduction, its case studies, and the preceding chapter have pointed out common innovations in the pragmatic economic...
9 January 2010
Civil society is laying claim to political representation in contemporary democracies, destabilizing long-standing ideas about...
1 January 2009
Published by: IDS
The growth of participatory governance has had the unintended consequence of spawning complex new forms of political representation. The...
1 January 2008
Published by: IDS
This IDS Bulletin focuses on the role of civil society actors in the design of sectoral reforms and the possibilities of social accountability resulting from this role.
30 May 2007
Published by: IDS
A well-established body of democratic theory suggests that associations are the schools of democracy and, because they produce civic and active citizens, are vital to the quality of democracy. In this paper we find that this may not be the case in newer democracies with authoritarian legacies. Survey research in the large urban centers of São Paulo and Mexico City reveals that citizens who participate in associations are more likely to actively pursue a range of rights and entitlements, but this participation does not improve the quality of their relations with government.
1 January 2006
A representação política nas democracias contemporâneas sofreu transformações profundas no último quartel do século XX:...
1 January 2006
1 January 2006
In many Third Wave democracies large classes of people experience diminished forms of citizenship. The systematic exclusion from...
1 January 2005
1 January 2005
Published by: IDS
This paper focuses on the Movement of the Landless (MST) in Brazil, which through a number of legal strategies has helped produce watershed high court rulings, contributed to the process of constitutionalising law, and made access to land more equitable in parts of Brazil by redefining property rights in practice.