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

This book addresses one of the greatest challenges of our age: that of 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, participatory budgeting 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.>

Product details

• Authors: Vera Schatten Coelho, Andrea Cornwall, Andrea Coelho Cornwall
• Assisted by: Vera Schatten Coelho (Editor), Andrea Cornwall (Editor)
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2006
• EAN: 9781842775523
• ISBN: 978-1-84277-552-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Claiming Citizenship; Claiming Citizenship: Rights, Participation & Accountability S.; Claiming Citizenship
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas