Empowered Participation or Political Manipulation? - State, Civil Society and Social Funds in Egypt and Bolivia

Using Social Funds in Egypt and Bolivia as a microcosm, this book offers a critical examination of state-civil society relations and governance under the neoliberal model. Focusing specifically on the reconstruction of citizenship rights and participatory governance under this model.

About the author

Rabab El-Mahdi, Ph.D. (2005), Political Science, McGill University. Assistant Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo. Co-Editor of Egypt: The Moment for Change (Zed Press, 2009). Her aticles were published in Comparative Political Studies, Review of African Political Economy, and Politics, Religion, & Ideology.

Product details

• Authors: Rabab El-Mahdi
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.07.2011
• EAN: 9789004209404
• ISBN: 978-90-04-20940-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 246 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Series: International Studies in Socio
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education