[Tps] TPS/ECPR Policy Network - New Book Announcement - Spaces for Change: Politics of Citizen Participation in New Democratic Arenas

[Navdeep Mathur]

SPACES FOR CHANGE?
The Politics of Citizen Participation in New Democratic Arenas
Edited by Andrea Cornwall and Vera Schatten Coelho (ZED Books)

http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=4134

Author Bio
**Andrea Cornwall** is a social anthropologist based at the Institute of 
Development Studies, University of Sussex.
*Vera Schattan P. Coelho* is a researcher and project coordinator at the 
Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP) in Sao Paulo.

http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=4134


      About the Book

This book studies one of the greatest challenges of our age: 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, budgeting processes 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*.
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Contents*

Foreword - John Gaventa 1. Spaces for Change? - Andrea Cornwall and Vera 
Schattan Coelho

Part One: The Challenge of Inclusion
2. Brazilian Health Councils - Vera Schattan Coelho
3. Spaces for Participation in Health Systems in Rural Bangladesh - 
Simeen Mahmud
4. The Politics of Domesticating Participation in Rural India - Ranjita 
Mohanty
5. Health Facilities Boards in the Western Cape of South Africa - John 
J. Williams
6. Civil Organizations and Political Representation in Brazil's 
Participatory Institutions - Graziela Castello, Adrián Gurza Lavalle and 
Peter P. Houtzager
7. Inclusion and Representation in Democratic Deliberations: Canada's 
Romanow Commission - Bettina von Lieres and David Kahane
Part Two: The Politics of Institutionalized Participation
8. Negotiating Participation in a Brazilian Municipal Health Council - 
Andrea Cornwall
9. Local Politics and Participatory Budgeting in Post-crisis Buenos 
Aires - Dennis Rodgers
10. New Democratic Spaces in Peri-urban Angola - Sandra Roque and Alex 
Shankland
11. Citizen Participation in South Africa - Bettina von Lieres
12. Contestations and Negotiations in Health and Community Regeneration 
Forums in England - Marian Barnes

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Commendations*

*'New democratic spaces at the intersection of the state and public 
sphere provide important opportunities for the more effective 
democratization of political life. This book constitutes a thorough and 
stimulating guide to the prospects for this emerging participatory 
sphere. It combines theoretical sophistication with incisive case 
analysis of deliberative spaces, with a much-needed focus on the 
developing world.'* - Professor John Dryzek, Australian National University

*'The various contributions to this extremely significant volume, 
painstakingly and effectively bridge the chasm between normative 
theories of participative democracy on the one hand, and empirical 
analysis on the other. Democratic theorists and development 
practitioners will learn and cite from this volume for years to come.'* 
- Professor Neera Chandhoke, University of Delhi



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