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Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics

By: Rebecca Abers,Margaret E. Keck

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Practical Authority

Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics

By: Rebecca Abers,Margaret E. Keck

This book looks at what actors in complex policy environments actually do to get new institutions off the ground. The story told has a multiplicity of protagonists, many of whom are normally invisible in political studies, such as the state officials and university professors who struggled to move water reform forward. The book explores the interaction between their efforts to influence the design and passage of new legislation and the hard labor of creating the new water management organizations the laws called for.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199985278

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9780199985272

Inventing Local Democracy

Grassroots Politics in Brazil

By: Rebecca Abers

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Inventing Local Democracy

Grassroots Politics in Brazil

By: Rebecca Abers

Abers (political science, Center for Public Policy Research, U. of Brasília, Brazil) provides a close study of innovative city government in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Led by the Workers' Party, the city implemented a participatory budget program in which residents meet in their neighborhoods to determine budget priorities. Taking place in a city long dominated by patronage politics and elite rule, the story is both a sociopolitical study of the impact that state- sponsored participatory forums can have on civil society and a contribution to the theory and practical possibilities of participatory democracy.--

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Lynne Rienner Publishers

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1555878938

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9781555878931

Occupying Schools, Occupying Land

How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education

By: Rebecca Tarlau

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Occupying Schools, Occupying Land

How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education

By: Rebecca Tarlau

Over the past thirty-five years the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST), one of the largest social movements in Latin America, has become famous globally for its success in occupying land, winning land rights, and developing alternative economic enterprises for over a million landless workers. The movement has also linked education reform to its vision for agrarian reform by developing pedagogical practices for schools that foster activism, direct democracy, and collective forms of work. In Occupying Schools, Occupying Land, Rebecca Tarlau explores how MST activists have pressured municipalities, states, and the federal government to implement their educational program in public schools and universities, affecting hundreds of thousands of students. Contrary to the belief that movements cannot engage the state without demobilizing, Tarlau shows how educational institutions can help movements recruit new activists, diversify their membership, increase technical knowledge, and garner political power. Drawing on twenty months of ethnographic field work, Tarlau documents how the MST operates in different regions working at times with or through the state, at other times outside it and despite it. She argues that activists are most effective using contentious co-governance, combining disruption and public protest with institutional pressure to defend and further their goals. Through an examination of the potentials, constraints, failures, and contradictions of the MST's educational struggle, Occupying Schools, Occupying Land offers insights into the ways education can promote social change, the interactions between social movements and states, and the barriers and possibilities for similar reforms in democratic contexts throughout the world.

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Oxford University Press

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0190870354

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9780190870355

Practical Authority

Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics

By: Rebecca Abers,Margaret E. Keck

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By: Rebecca Abers,Margaret E. Keck

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Inventing Local Democracy

Grassroots Politics in Brazil

By: Rebecca Abers

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Grassroots Politics in Brazil

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Deepening Democracy

Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance

By: Archon Fung,Erik Olin Wright

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Deepening Democracy

Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance

By: Archon Fung,Erik Olin Wright

The forms of liberal democracy developed in the 19th century seem increasingly ill-suited to the problems we face in the 21st. This dilemma has given rise to a deliberative democracy, and this text explores four contemporary cases in which the principles have been at least partially instituted.

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1859846882

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The Young Rebecca

Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17

By: Rebecca West

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The Young Rebecca

Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17

By: Rebecca West

In 1916, when Rebecca West was not yet twenty-five years old, George Bernard Shaw wrote: 'Rebecca can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.' These early writings, collected ehre for the first time, established Rebecca West's reputation as a brilliant journalist and a dedicated yet undogmatic feminist and socialist. From the age of nineteen, writing articles for The Freewoman, and later the Clarion, she displayed her characteristic fierce intelligence, her passion and her biting wit in articles on women's suffrage, imperialism, the Labour Party, and trade unionism as well as literature, religion, domesticity, men and crime. Whether reviewing the latest novel by H.G. Wells ('the sex obsession that lay clotted on Ann Veronica... like cold white sauce'), describing police brutality against suffragettes ('An Orgy of Disorder and Cruelty'), or arguing for better conditions for working women ('Women ought to understand that in submitting themselves to this swindle of underpayment, they are not only insulting themselves, but doing a deadly injury to the community'), she demonstrated again and again a characteristic fearlessness and a formidable grasp of events. Including a short story, 'Indissoluble Matrimony', which appeared in the historic first issue of Blast, and a biographical essay of great psychological penetration on the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, this exhilerating collection introduces the early work of one of the most distinguished writers of our time and provides a portrait of a fascinating and turbulent period of British political and literary history.

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Virago Modern Classics

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0860683184

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9780860683186

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Practical Authority

Practical Authority

Inventing Local Democracy

Inventing Local Democracy

Occupying Schools, Occupying Land

Occupying Schools, Occupying Land

Practical Authority

Practical Authority

Inventing Local Democracy

Inventing Local Democracy

Deepening Democracy

Deepening Democracy

The Young Rebecca

The Young Rebecca

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