Citizen Action and National Policy Reform: Making Change Happen

ISBN-13: 9781848133853 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 240 str.

John Gaventa; McGee Rosemary

Opis

Presents eight studies of successful cases of citizen activism for national policy changes in South Africa, Morocco, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Turkey, India and the Philippines. This work details the dynamics and strategies that have led to the introduction, change or effective implementation of policies responding to a range of rights deficits.

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Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: Making Change Happen: Citizen action and national policy reform - John Gaventa and Rosemary McGee 1. Gaining Comprehensive AIDS Treatment in South Africa: the extraordinary 'ordinary' - Steven Friedman 2. Redistributing land in the Philippines: social movements and state reformers - Saturnino M. Borras Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco 3. Reducing Maternal Mortality in Mexico: building vertical alliances for change - Michael D. Layton, Beatriz Campillo Carrete, Ireri Ablanedo Terrazas, Ana María Sánchez Rodríguez 4. Protecting the Child in Chile: civil Society and the state - Claudio Fuentes 5. Winning the Right to Information in India: Is knowledge power? - Amita Baviskar 6. Democratising Urban Policy in Brazil: participation and the right to the city - Leonardo Avritzer 7. Winning Women's Rights in Morocco: cultural Adaptations and Islamic family law - Alexandra Pittman and Rabéa Naciri 8. Re/Forming Laws to Secure Women's Rights in Turkey: The campaign on the Penal Code - Pinar Ilkkaracan