Democracy and Civil Society in the Third World
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
Product details
- ISBN 9780745616476
- Weight: 327g
- Dimensions: 150 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 14 Nov 1997
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This book provides an accessible account of popular political, social and economic movements in the Third World. Focusing on poor and marginalized groups within developing countries, it shows how these groups have been stimulated into action by recent demands for political and economic change.
Haynes describes the growing interest in democratic change in the Third World during the 1980s and 1990s, and argues that demands for democracy, human rights and economic change were a widespread catalyst for the emergence of hundreds of thousands of popular movements in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Sometimes these took the form of demands for more political representation and greater economic development; others were concerned with environmental protection, the broad position of women and the establishment of Islamic states and societies.
Haynes argues that these emerging popular organizations are best regarded as building blocks of civil society that, in time, will enhance the democratic nature of many political environments in the Third World.
The book will be welcomed by students and researchers in development studies, politics and sociology.
Jeffrey Haynes is the author of Democracy and Civil Society in the Third World: Politics and New Political Movements, published by Wiley.
