Politicising Democracy The New Local Politics of Democratisation,9781403934819

Politicising Democracy The New Local Politics of Democratisation

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ISBN13: 9781403934819
ISBN10: 1403934819
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-03-02
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

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, analyses 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.

Author Biography

John Harriss is Professor of Development Studies at the London School of Economics, UK. His research now focuses on politics and political economy, with particular reference to India. He is the author, with Stuart Corbridge, of Reinventing India: Economic Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy, and of Depoliticizing Development: the World Bank and Social Capital.

Olle T÷rnquist is Professor of Political Science and Development Research, University of Oslo, Norway. He has published extensively on politics and development, radical politics, and problems of democratisation in comparative perspective. His recent books include Politics and Development: A Critical Introduction, Popular Development and Democracy: Case Studies in the Philippines, Indonesia and Kerala, and Indonesia's Post-Soeharto Democracy Movement (with S.Adi Prasetyo & E.A.Priyono).

Kristian Stokke is Professor in Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway. His research focuses on social movement politics and democratisation in South Africa and ethno-nationalist conflicts and post-conflict political transformations in Sri Lanka.

Table of Contents

List of Tables
viii
Preface ix
Notes on the Contributors xi
List of Abbreviations
xiv
Introduction: The New Local Politics of Democratisation
1(28)
John Harriss
Kristian Stokke
Olle Tornquist
Localisation of politics in the context of globalisation
2(1)
Democratic transitions in the context of globalisation
3(3)
Approaching local democratic participation
6(10)
Analysing local politics and democratisation
16(5)
The contributions
21(8)
Decentralisation in Indonesia: Less State, More Democracy?
29(22)
Henk Schulte Nordholt
The miracle of the Titanic
29(2)
Rethinking analytical categories
31(3)
Bringing the regions back in
34(2)
The agony of decentralisation: 1999 and after
36(2)
Professional optimism versus realistic pessimism
38(4)
Regional elites, adat and ethnicity
42(5)
Patrimonial patterns, democracy and state capacity
47(4)
Bossism and Democracy in the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia: Towards an Alternative Framework for the Study of `Local Strongmen'
51(24)
John T. Sidel
Introduction
51(3)
The Philippines: clientelism, oligarchy and a `weak' state?
54(3)
Bossism in comparative perspective: Thailand
57(3)
Indonesia: local mafias, networks and clans
60(11)
Conclusion: `local strongmen' in Southeast Asia revisited
71(4)
Can Public Deliberation Democratise State Action?: Municipal Health Councils and Local Democracy in Brazil
75(32)
Gunther Schonleitner
Deliberative public spaces: the missing link for democratic consolidation?
77(5)
Deliberative inequality and institutional design
82(4)
Public space between hegemony and deliberation
86(5)
The politics of participatory governance
91(4)
The public sphere: source of democratic renewal?
95(7)
Institutional interaction and transformation
102(2)
Conclusions
104(3)
Historical Hurdles in the Course of the People's Planning Campaign in Kerala, India
107(20)
P. K. Michael Tharakan
The institutional framework
108(1)
The character of the reforms in comparative perspective
109(2)
The historical roots of popular mobilisation
111(2)
The basic assumptions about civil society and marginalised people
113(1)
From political to party-political civic movements
114(2)
The People's Planning Campaign and the party-politicised civil society
116(3)
Mobilisation of the marginalised?
119(2)
Conclusion
121(6)
Social Movements, Socio-economic Rights and Substantial Democratisation in South Africa
127(21)
Kristian Stokke
Sophie Oldfield
Substantial democratisation and social movements
128(1)
Sources of political capacity for social movements
129(2)
Liberal democracy and economic liberalisation in South Africa
131(3)
Social movements and anti-privatisation politics
134(3)
Political capacity and the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
137(1)
Opposition through engagement in Valhalla Park
138(2)
Resistance through public protest in Mandela Park
140(2)
Scaling up to city and national politics
142(6)
More than Difficult, Short of Impossible: Party Building and Local Governance in the Philippines
148(23)
Joel Rocamora
Akbayan (Citizens Action Party)
149(3)
Political crisis and the struggle for political reform
152(5)
More than difficult, short of impossible
157(3)
Local governance and party building
160(4)
Elections to parties
164(2)
The Left and the `radical democratic option'
166(5)
Trade Unions, Institutional Reform and Democracy: Nigerian Experiences with South African and Ugandan Comparisons
171(30)
Bjorn Beckman
Introduction
171(1)
The case against the unions
171(2)
A pro-union case
173(3)
The formation of a union-based labour regime
176(1)
The resilience of unions
177(3)
The African experience
180(10)
The Nigerian Textile Workers' Union
190(5)
Comparisons, implications and conclusions
195(6)
The Political Deficit of Substantial Democratisation
201(25)
Olle Tornquist
Elitist vs popular democratisation
202(4)
The political deficit
206(2)
The political foundations
208(3)
The politics of mixed results
211(9)
Broader alternative assessment
220(2)
Conclusions and the way ahead
222(4)
References 226(20)
Index 246

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