Titlebook: Rethinking Popular Representation; Olle Törnquist (professor of political science and Book 2009 Olle Törnquist, Neil Webster, and Kristian

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What Is the Relationship Between Participation and Representation?,the best way to study and evaluate democracy is to disaggregate the concept and the set of practices associated with the concept. Such disarticulation is a necessary precondition for any reasoned and meaningful analysis of the essential dimensions and processes at work. Conventional understandings o

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The Paradox of Civil Society Representation: Constructing New Forms of Democratic Legitimacy in Bralegitimacy of state action. Civil society organisations have in this context become significant de facto, and in many cases de jure, political representatives of the publics on whose behalf they work. Advocacy is an old practice among civil society organisations. What we are seeing today is somethin

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School Provision, the Capacity to Aspire, and the State of Popular Representation in West Bengal,he devolved system of local government has been assessed for its capacity to be more effective, more efficient, and, not least, more equitable in service delivery and promotion of economic development. Opinions vary and range from emphasising the pro-poor outcomes that have been achieved in the agra

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The Politics of ,: Popular Participation and Decentralised Governance in Mozambique,ost-war constitutional commitments to démocratisation after the country’s post-independence flirtation with socialism and a high degree of centralism, the process of decentralisation has taken two forms. First, a system of locally elected governments in the form of municipalities . for the urban and

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Representation by Design? Variations on Participatory Reforms in Brazilian Municipios,in the literature. Scholars looking to the Global South find contradictory patterns of economic globalisation, the deregulation and liberalisation of national economies, the decentralisation of national states, and tentative steps toward democratic consolidation. Particularly contested is the unders

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Patronage Democracy in Provincial Indonesia,would not.. Business, middle classes, and working classes were either not interested in democracy or too small to be effective (a problem he had earlier termed ‘the missing bourgeoisie’).. Ethnic loyalties were a barrier to democracy. The dominant traditional Javanese culture was not democratic. Ext

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Compromised Democracy: Observations on Popular Democratic Representation from Urban India,de, ‘Urbanization in Delhi does appear to be providing the poor with greater voice in democratic discourse. Slum dwellers benefit from a remarkable access to politicians and other government officials’.. Their research, conducted in four slums (selected according to the proximity of the residents’ s

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Trade Unions and Popular Representation: Nigeria and South Africa Compared,tain their political influence on state power through the close link between unions and the political wing of the movement, whether social- democratic, socialist, or communist. Are working-class-based and trade- union-backed political parties the solution to the ‘democratic problem’ in much of the w

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Popular Politics of Representation: New Lessons from the Pioneering Projects in Indonesia, Kerala, nes suffered from the subordination of démocratisation to the cold war, anti-imperialism, and top-down politics,. the set-backs and new contradictions generated democracy-oriented groups against statism, violence, clientelism, and coercive accumulation of capital for civil rights and public action o