| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) |
| Contents |
Urban Popular Movements in Latin America: Identity, Strategy, and Autonomy -- Decentralization and the Participation of Urban Popular Movements in Local Government -- Urban Popular Movements, Political Parties, and the State in Peru -- The Peruvian Left and Local Government in the Early 1980s -- The Barrantes Administration of Metropolitan Lima, 1984-1986 -- Revolutionary and Radical-Democratic Approaches in Conflict |
| Summary |
With the role of local government becoming more important as Latin American countries moved away from state-led development models in the 1980s, and with social movements helping to bring about the transition to democracy, questions arose about whether and how popular participation at the local level might be able to contribute to the consolidation of democracy from the grassroots upward. This book, based on extensive research in low-income districts of Lima, provides a sophisticated analysis of the relationship between a resurgent civil society and democratization. Exploring the complex interactions among urban popular movements, local government, political parties, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), Schṉwl̃der shows that the democratic potential of these movements is genuine but that their influence has been limited. His balanced assessment credits their achievements while illuminating the sources of their failures, mainly a variety of institutional barriers and a persistent threat of manipulation and co-optation by stronger actors, especially political parties. His analysis helps us understand better why the left has so often failed to convert its considerable support at the grassroots into political successes at higher levels |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-231) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Local government -- Peru
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Urban poor -- Political activity -- Peru
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Democratization -- Peru
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New Left -- Peru
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Social movements -- Peru
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Local.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- State & Provincial.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)
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Democratization
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Local government
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New Left
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Social movements
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Urban poor -- Political activity
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Die Linke
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Kommunalpolitik
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Soziale Bewegung
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Stadt
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Sociale bewegingen.
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Lokaal bestuur.
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Links (politiek)
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Peru
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Peru
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2001055955 |
| ISBN |
0271023791 |
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9780271023793 |
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