Author(s): Olle Törnquist, Neil Webster and Kristian Stokke (Editors)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Governance, Security and Development
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 288
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Notes on the Contributors......Page 12
1 Introduction: The Problem Is Representation! Towards an Analytical Framework......Page 16
2 What Is the Relationship Between Participation and Representation?......Page 40
3 The Paradox of Civil Society Representation: Constructing New Forms of Democratic Legitimacy in Brazil......Page 54
4 Symbolic Representation as Political Practice......Page 74
5 School Provision, the Capacity to Aspire, and the State of Popular Representation in West Bengal......Page 94
6 The Politics of Gradualismo: Popular Participation and Decentralised Governance in Mozambique......Page 114
7 Representation by Design? Variations on Participatory Reforms in Brazilian Municípios......Page 134
8 Patronage Democracy in Provincial Indonesia......Page 156
9 Compromised Democracy: Observations on Popular Democratic Representation from Urban India......Page 176
10 Trade Unions and Popular Representation: Nigeria and South Africa Compared......Page 194
11 Popular Politics of Representation: New Lessons from the Pioneering Projects in Indonesia, Kerala, and the Philippines......Page 212
12 From Research to Practice: Towards the Democratic Institutionalisation of Nodes for Improved Representation......Page 238
References......Page 250
B......Page 272
C......Page 273
D......Page 275
E......Page 277
G......Page 278
I......Page 279
M......Page 280
N......Page 281
P......Page 282
R......Page 285
S......Page 286
T......Page 287
Z......Page 288
