ISBN:
9780199208852
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 438 p)
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Oxford studies in democratization
Parallel Title:
Print version Accountability Politics : Power and Voice in Rural Mexico
DDC:
306.20972/091734
Keywords:
Rural development Citizen participation
;
Peasants Political activity
;
Civil society
;
Social capital (Sociology)
;
Political participation
;
Mexico Rural conditions
Abstract:
How can the seeds of accountability ever grow in authoritarian environments? Embedding accountability into the state is an inherently uneven, partial and contested process. Campaigns for public accountability often win limited concessions at best, but they can leave cracks in the system that serve as handholds for subsequent efforts to open up the state to public scrutiny. This book explores the how civil society "thickens" by comparing two decades of rural citizens' struggles to hold the Mexican state accountable, exploring both change and continuity before, during, and after nation
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Figures; List of Charts; List of Tables; 1. Transitions to Accountability: Disentangling State and Regime; 2. Civil Society and Accountability Politics; 3. How Does Civil Society Thicken? The Political Construction of Social Capital in Rural Mexico; 4. Democratic Rural Development: Leadership Accountability in Regional Peasant Organizations; 5. National Electoral Choices in Rural Mexico; 6. Contrasting Theory and Practice: The World Bank and Social Capital in Rural Mexico; 7. Decentralizing Decentralization: Mexico's Invisible Fourth Level of the State
Description / Table of Contents:
8. Comparing Regional Rural Development Councils: Do 'Invited Spaces' Empower?9. Accessing Accountability: Individual Versus Collective Voices; 10. Exit Followed by Voice: Mexico's Migrant Civil Society; 11. Unpacking Accountability Politics; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [356]-426)and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199208852.001.0001
Permalink