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  • Voice in Local Development

    Participation, Empowerment, and Accountability in Kenya

    by Brian Wampler, Michael Touchton ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations
    Many governments in semi-democratic regimes have adopted participatory democratic institutions to promote development and accountability. But limited resources, weak civil society, and a history of authoritarian politics make building subnational democratic institutions daunting. This book addresses several important questions surrounding participatory democratic institutions: do participatory ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Participatory Budgeting in Global Perspective

    by Brian Wampler, Stephanie McNulty, Michael Touchton ...
    Participatory Budgeting continues to spread across the globe as government officials and citizens adopt this innovative democratic program in the hopes of strengthening accountability, civil society, and well-being. Governments often adapt PB's basic program design to meet local needs, thus creating wide variation in how PB programs function. Some programs retain features of radical democracy, ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Democracy at Work

    Pathways to Well-Being in Brazil

    by Brian Wampler, Natasha Borges Sugiyama, Michael Touchton ...
    One of the greatest challenges in the twenty-first century is to address large, deep, and historic deficits in human development. Democracy at Work explores a crucial question: how does democracy, with all of its messy, contested, and, time-consuming features, advance well-being and improve citizens' lives? Professors Brian Wampler, Natasha Borges Sugiyama, and Michael Touchton argue that ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Salvaging Community

    How American Cities Rebuild Closed Military Bases

    by Michael Touchton, Amanda J. Ashley ...
    American communities face serious challenges when military bases close. But affected municipalities and metro regions are not doomed. Taking a long-term, flexible, and incremental approach, Michael Touchton and Amanda J. Ashley make strong recommendations for collaborative models of governance that can improve defense conversion dramatically and ensure benefits, even for low-resource ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    The Challenge of Development Alternatives

    Edited by Anthony J. Bebbington, Samuel Hickey, Diana C. Mitlin ...
    Can non-governmental organisations contribute to more socially just, alternative forms of development? Or are they destined to work at the margins of dominant development models determined by others? Addressing this question, this book brings together leading international voices from academia, NGOs and the social movements. It provides a comprehensive update to the NGO literature and a range of ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Wired and Mobilizing

    Social Movements, New Technology, and Electoral Politics

    by Victoria Carty ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    This book highlights how online networking offers potential for new forms of activist mobilizing, repertoires, participatory democracy, direct action, fundraising, and civic engagement. It calls for a re-conceptualization of some of the main tenets of contentious and electoral politics, which were originally constructed to describe and analyze face-to-face forms of mobilization, in order to more ... Read more

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  • Popular Democracy

    The Paradox of Participation

    by Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Ernesto Ganuza ...
    Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all cities have developed opportunities for citizen involvement in strategic planning. The World Bank has invested $85 billion over the last decade to support community participation worldwide. But even as these opportunities have become more popular, many contend that they have also become less connected ... Read more

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  • The Transformation of the Workers' Party in Brazil, 1989–2009

    by Wendy Hunter ...
    Drawing on historical institutionalism and strategic frameworks, this book analyzes the evolution of the Workers' Party between 1989, the year of Lula's first presidential bid, and 2009, when his second presidential term entered its final stretch. The book's primary purpose is to understand why and how the once-radical Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) moderated the programmatic positions it endorsed ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Mediation in Collective Labor Conflicts

    Edited by Martin C. Euwema, Francisco J. Medina, Ana Belén García, Erica Romero Pender ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This open access book opens up the black box of mediation in collective conflicts through the analyses and comparisons of various systems. Mediation and related third party interventions such as conciliation and facilitation are discussed as effective prevention and regulation tools for different types of collective labor conflicts. These interventions fit in a new developed five-phase model of ... Read more

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  • Businesses with a Difference

    Balancing the Social and the Economic

    by Laurie Mook, Jack Quarter, Sherida Ryan ...
    Market-based social economy firms such as social enterprises, social purpose businesses, co-operatives, credit unions, and community economic development corporations aim to meet distinct social needs while making money. Do these types of businesses have the potential for growth in the modern economy? Are they destined to function only in areas where conventional firms cannot achieve a sufficient ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • IDRC

    40 Years of Ideas, Innovation, and Impact

    by Bruce Muirhead, Ronald N. Harpelle ...
    The book focuses on the International Development Research Centre as a unique institution that has funded research in the developing South—research proposed and undertaken by Southern researchers—and how, as a result, it has had tremendous impact despite a relatively small budget. The IDRC is much better known in the developing South than in Canada; in many of the roughly 150 countries in which it ... Read more

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  • Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice

    Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization

    by Louise Fortmann ...
    Seeking to catalyze innovative thinking and practice within the field of women and gender in development, editors Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield have brought together scholars, policymakers, and development workers to reflect on where the field is today and where it is headed. The contributors draw from their experiences and research in Latin America, Asia, and Africa to illuminate the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD