Citizen Action and National Policy Reform - Making Change Happen (Hardcover, New)

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 global levels. In the rush to go global or stay local, however, the national policy sphere was recently neglected. Today, there is growing recognition of the key role of champions of change inside national governments, and the potential of their engagement with citizen activists outside. These advances demand a better understanding of how national and local actors can combine approaches to simultaneously work the levers of change, and how their successes relate to actors and institutions at the international level. This book brings together eight studies of successful cases of citizen activism for national policy changes in South Africa, Morocco, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Turkey, India and the Philippines. They detail the dynamics and strategies that have led to the introduction, change or effective implementation of policies responding to a range of rights deficits. Drawing on influential social science theory about how political and social change occurs, the book brings new empirical insights to bear on it, both challenging and enriching current understandings.

General

Imprint:	Zed Books Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Claiming Citizenship
Release date:	April 2010
First published:	May 2010
Editors:	John Gaventa • Rosemary McGee
Contributors:	Rabea Naciri • Amita Baviskar • Michael D. Layton • Ana Maria Sanchez Rodriguez • Claudio A. Fuentes • Beatriz Campillo Carrete • Jennifer C. Franco • Steven Friedman
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Paper over boards
Pages:	240
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-84813-385-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > General
LSN:	1-84813-385-5
Barcode:	9781848133853

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