基本説明
A comprehensive introduction to the rise of participatory democracy in both the North and the South.
Full Description
This book addresses one of the greatest challenges of our agebuilding 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.
Contents
Foreword - John Gaventa1. Spaces for Change? The Politics of Participation in New Democratic Arenas - Andrea Cornwall and Vera Schattan P. CoelhoPart I: The Challenge of Inclusion2. Brazilian Health Councils: including the excluded? - Vera Schattan P. Coelho3. Spaces for participation in health systems in rural Bangladesh: the experience of stakeholder community groups - Simeen Mahmud4. Gendered subjects, the state and participatory spaces: the politics of domesticating participation in rural India - Ranjita Mohanty5. Social change and community participation: the case of Health Facilities Boards in the Western Cape of South Africa - John J. Williams6. Civil organizations and political representation in Brazil's participatory institutions - Graziela Castello, Adrian Gurza Lavalle and Peter P. Houtzager7. Inclusion and representation in democratic deliberations: lessons from Canada's Romanow Commission - Bettina von Lieres and David KahanePart II: The Politics of Institutionalised Participation7. Negotiating participation in a Brazilian Municipal Health Council - Andrea Cornwall8. Subverting the spaces of invitation? Local politics and participatory budgeting in post-crisis Buenos Aires - Dennis Rodgers9. Participation, mutation and political transition: new democratic spaces in peri-urban Angola - Sandra Roque and Alex Shankland10. Participation, mutation and political transition: new democratic spaces in peri-urban Angola - Sandra Roque and Alex Shankland11. Citizen participation in South Africa: land struggles and HIV/AIDS activism - Bettina von Lieres12. Whose spaces? Contestations and negotiations in health and community regeneration forums in England - Marian Barnes
