Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 226 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1282579312
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9781848133853
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9781848133860
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9781282579316
Series Statement:
Claiming Citizenship
Content:
How does citizen activism win changes in national policy? Which factors help to make myriad efforts by diverse actors add up to reform? What is needed to overcome setbacks, and to consolidate the smaller victories? These questions need answers. Aid agencies have invested heavily in supporting civil society organizations as change agents in fledgling and established democracies alike. Evidence gathered by donors, NGOs and academics demonstrates how advocacy and campaigning can reconfigure power relations and transform governance structures at the local and gloabal levels. In the rush to go glob
Note:
Includes index
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About the series; About the editors; Tables; Abbreviations; Foreword; 1 - Introduction: making change happen - citizen action and national policy reform; 2 - Gaining comprehensive AIDS treatment in South Africa: the extraordinary 'ordinary'; 3 - Redistributing land in the Philippines: social movements and state reformers; 4 - Reducing maternal mortality in Mexico: building vertical alliances for change; 5 - Protecting the child in Chile: civil society and the state; 6 - Winning the right to information in India: is knowledge power?
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7 - Democratizing urban policy in Brazil: participation and the right to the city8 - Winning women's rights in Morocco: cultural adaptations and Islamic family law; 9 - Re/forming laws to secure women's rights in Turkey: the campaign on the Penal Code; About the contributors; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848133877
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1282579282
Additional Edition:
Print version Citizen Action and National Policy Reform Making Change Happen
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Citizen action and national policy London [u.a.] : Zed, 2010 ISBN 9781848133853
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1848133855
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848133860
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1848133863
Language:
English
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