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Collective Action and Patterns of Political Authority: Rural Workers, Church, and State in Brazil
This article explores how new political actors form and reproduce themselves within societies' most vulnerable sectors, those...
Global Transformations and New Conflicts
Published by: IDS
The central argument of this article is that a central feature of post-Cold War conflicts has been the delegitimisation of public authority, interacting with globalisation, through a process which is almost the reverse of state and nation-building.
Making Law Matter: Rights, Rules and Security in the Live of the Poor
Published by: IDS
After a hiatus, law has re-emerged onto the international development agenda. A number of reasons are suggested: first, the 'good governance' policies advocated by the international donor community see reform of the state and its relations with society as key elements in promoting market-led growth.
Poverty, Civil Society and Patronage: a Study of Two Farmers’ Associations in North West Province
Published by: Centre for Policy Studies
The Institutional Roots of Popular Mobilization: State Transformation and Rural Politics in Brazil and Chile, 1960–95
Published by: Routledge
The past thirty years in Latin America have produced tremendous transformations of the state's role in society, both in the scope of its...