Author: Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Author: La participación popular en el poder
Author: Pier Luigi ZampettiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political participation
Languages : es
Pages : 262
Book Description
Popular Participation, Decentralisation, and Local Power Relations in Bolivia
Author: Denis Lucy Avilés IraholaPublisher: Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN: 3865374301
Category : Bolivia
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
People's Power
Author: Peter RomanPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742525658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Focusing primarily on the municipal level but also presenting material on the national and provincial elected bodies and the newer people's councils and workers' parliaments, Roman (behavioral and social sciences, City U. of New York) offers a theoretical, historical, and contemporary analysis. He finds theoretical foundations in Rousseau, Marx, and Lenin and historical precedents in the Paris Commune, the 1905 and 1917 Soviets, and the Soviet Union before and after Stalin. His coverage extends from the various experiments after the triumph of the revolution in 1959 through effects of the 1992 Constitution and election law, to the present. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Popular Sovereignty and Constituent Power in Latin America
Author: Emelio BetancesPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137548258
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
This book combines a bottom-up and top-down approach to the study of social movements in relationship to the development of constituent and constituted power in Latin America. The contributors to this volume argue that the radical transformation of liberal representative democracy into participative democracy is what colours these processes as revolutionary. The core themes include popular sovereignty, constituted power, constituent power, participatory democracy, free trade agreements, social citizenship, as well as redistribution and recognition issues. Unlike other collections, which provide broad coverage of social movements at the expense of depth, this book is of thematic focus and illuminates the relationships between rulers and ruled as they transform liberal democracy.
Deepening Local Democracy in Latin America
Author: Benjamin GoldfrankPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271074515
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The resurgence of the Left in Latin America over the past decade has been so notable that it has been called “the Pink Tide.” In recent years, regimes with leftist leaders have risen to power in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Venezuela. What does this trend portend for the deepening of democracy in the region? Benjamin Goldfrank has been studying the development of participatory democracy in Latin America for many years, and this book represents the culmination of his empirical investigations in Brazil, Uruguay, and Venezuela. In order to understand why participatory democracy has succeeded better in some countries than in others, he examines the efforts in urban areas that have been undertaken in the cities of Porto Alegre, Montevideo, and Caracas. His findings suggest that success is related, most crucially, to how nationally centralized political authority is and how strongly institutionalized the opposition parties are in the local arenas.
Dispersing Power
Author: Raul ZibechiPublisher: AK Press
ISBN: 1849350116
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Building power beyond the state.
Challenges to the 2020 Vision for Latin America: food and agriculture since 1970/Desafíos para la visión 2020 en América Latina : la alimentación y la agricultura desde 1970
Author: James L. GarrettPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896296040
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Latin American Social Movements in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Richard Stahler-SholkPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461601908
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
This clearly written and comprehensive text examines the uprising of politically and economically marginalized groups in Latin American societies. Specialists in a broad range of disciplines present original research from a variety of case studies in a student-friendly format. Part introductions help students contextualize the essays, highlighting social movement origins, strategies, and outcomes. Thematic sections address historical context, political economy, community-building and consciousness, ethnicity and race, gender, movement strategies, and transnational organizing, making this book useful to anyone studying the wide range of social movements in Latin America.
Towards Universal Health Care in Emerging Economies
Author: Ilcheong YiPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137533773
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This book explores how political, social, economic and institutional factors in eight emerging economies have combined to generate diverse outcomes in their move towards universal health care. Structured in three parts, the book begins by framing social policy as an integral system in its own right. The following two parts go on to discuss the opportunities and challenges of achieving universal health care in Thailand, Brazil and China, and survey the obstacles facing India, Indonesia, Russia, South Africa and Venezuela in the reform of their health care systems. The evolution of social policy systems and the cases in this volume together demonstrate that universalism in health care is continuously redefined by the interactions between diverse political forces and through specific policy processes. At a time when international and national-level discourse around health systems has once again brought universalism to the fore, this edited collection offers a timely contribution to the field in its thorough analysis of health care reform in emerging economies.