[Tps] New Book Announcement - Spaces for Change: Politics of Citizen Participation in New Democratic Arenas

[Frank Fischer]

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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.




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.


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 


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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