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Politicising Democracy

The New Local Politics of Democratisation

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Editors:
  1. John Harriss

    1. Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

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  2. Kristian Stokke

    1. Department of Sociology & Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway

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  3. Olle Törnquist

    1. Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway

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Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: The New Local Politics of Democratisation

    • John Harriss, Kristian Stokke, Olle Törnquist
    Pages 1-28

  3. Decentralisation in Indonesia: Less State, More Democracy?

    • Henk Schulte Nordholt
    Pages 29-50

  4. Bossism and Democracy in the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia: Towards an Alternative Framework for the Study of ‘Local Strongmen’

    • John T. Sidel
    Pages 51-74

  5. Can Public Deliberation Democratise State Action?: Municipal Health Councils and Local Democracy in Brazil

    • Günther Schönleitner
    Pages 75-106

  6. Historical Hurdles in the Course of the People’s Planning Campaign in Kerala, India

    • P. K. Michael Tharakan
    Pages 107-126

  7. Social Movements, Socio-economic Rights and Substantial Democratisation in South Africa

    • Kristian Stokke, Sophie Oldfield
    Pages 127-147

  8. More than Difficult, Short of Impossible: Party Building and Local Governance in the Philippines

    • Joel Rocamora
    Pages 148-170

  9. Trade Unions, Institutional Reform and Democracy: Nigerian Experiences with South African and Ugandan Comparisons

    • Björn Beckman
    Pages 171-200

  10. The Political Deficit of Substantial Democratisation

    • Olle Törnquist
    Pages 201-225

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 226-253
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There is a major contradiction in contemporary politics: there has been a wave of democratization that has swept across much of the world, while at the same time globalization appears to have reduced the social forces that have built democracy historically. This book, by an international group of authors, analyzes the ways in which local politics in developing countries - often neglected in work on democratization - render democratic experiments more or less successful in realizing substantial democracy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

    John Harriss

  • Department of Sociology & Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway

    Kristian Stokke

  • Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway

    Olle Törnquist

About the editors

BJÖRN BECKMAN is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Stocholm, Sweden HENK SCHULTE NORDHOLT is Professor of Asian History, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands SOPHIE OLDFIELD is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Cape Town, South Africa JOEL ROCAMORA is Fellow of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Director of the Philippine Institute for Popular Democracy, Philippines GÜNTHER SCHÖNLEITNER is a PhD candidate and Lord Dahrendorf Scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Development Studies Institute, UK JOHN T.SIDEL is Reader in South East Asian Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK P.K. MICHAEL THARAKAN is associated with the Centre for Socio-Economic and Environmental Studies in Cochin, India.

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