Politicising Democracy: The New Local Politics of Democratisation (International Political Economy Series)

✍ Scribed by John Harriss, Kristian Stokke, Olle Tornquist

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 268
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

There is a major contradiction in contemporary politics: there has been a wave of democratization that has swept across much of the world, while at the same time globalization appears to have reduced the social forces that have built democracy historically. This book, by an international group of authors, analyses the ways in which local politics in developing countries--often neglected in work on democratization--render democratic experiments more or less successful in realizing substantial democracy.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 9
Preface......Page 10
Notes on the Contributors......Page 12
List of Abbreviations......Page 15
1 Introduction: The New Local Politics of Democratisation......Page 16
Localisation of politics in the context of globalisation......Page 17
Democratic transitions in the context of globalisation......Page 18
Approaching local democratic participation......Page 21
Analysing local politics and democratisation......Page 31
The contributions......Page 36
The miracle of the Titanic......Page 44
Rethinking analytical categories......Page 46
Bringing the regions back in......Page 49
The agony of decentralisation: 1999 and after......Page 51
Professional optimism versus realistic pessimism......Page 53
Regional elites, adat and ethnicity......Page 57
Patrimonial patterns, democracy and state capacity......Page 62
Introduction......Page 66
The Philippines: clientelism, oligarchy and a 'weak' state?......Page 69
Bossism in comparative perspective: Thailand......Page 72
Indonesia: local mafias, networks and clans......Page 75
Conclusion: 'local strongmen' in Southeast Asia revisited......Page 86
4 Can Public Deliberation Democratise State Action?: Municipal Health Councils and Local Democracy in Brazil......Page 90
Deliberative public spaces: the missing link for democratic consolidation?......Page 92
Deliberative inequality and institutional design......Page 97
Public space between hegemony and deliberation......Page 101
The politics of participatory governance......Page 106
The public sphere: source of democratic renewal?......Page 110
Institutional interaction and transformation......Page 117
Conclusions......Page 119
5 Historical Hurdles in the Course of the People's Planning Campaign in Kerala, India......Page 122
The institutional framework......Page 123
The character of the reforms in comparative perspective......Page 124
The historical roots of popular mobilisation......Page 126
The basic assumptions about civil society and marginalised people......Page 128
From political to party-political civic movements......Page 129
The People's Planning Campaign and the party-politicised civil society......Page 131
Mobilisation of the marginalised?......Page 134
Conclusion......Page 136
6 Social Movements, Socio-economic Rights and Substantial Democratisation in South Africa......Page 142
Substantial democratisation and social movements......Page 143
Sources of political capacity for social movements......Page 144
Liberal democracy and economic liberalisation in South Africa......Page 146
Social movements and anti-privatisation politics......Page 149
Political capacity and the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign......Page 152
Opposition through engagement in Valhalla Park......Page 153
Resistance through public protest in Mandela Park......Page 155
Scaling up to city and national politics......Page 157
7 More than Difficult, Short of Impossible: Party Building and Local Governance in the Philippines......Page 163
Akbayan (Citizens Action Party)......Page 164
Political crisis and the struggle for political reform......Page 167
More than difficult, short of impossible......Page 172
Local governance and party building......Page 175
Elections to parties......Page 179
The Left and the 'radical democratic option'......Page 181
The case against the unions......Page 186
A pro-union case......Page 188
The formation of a union-based labour regime......Page 191
The resilience of unions......Page 192
The African experience......Page 195
The Nigerian Textile Workers' Union......Page 205
Comparisons, implications and conclusions......Page 210
9 The Political Deficit of Substantial Democratisation......Page 216
Elitist vs popular democratisation......Page 217
The political deficit......Page 221
The political foundations......Page 223
The politics of mixed results......Page 226
Broader alternative assessment......Page 235
Conclusions and the way ahead......Page 237
References......Page 241
C......Page 261
F......Page 262
I......Page 263
L......Page 264
P......Page 265
S......Page 266
T......Page 267
Z......Page 268