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Taking power back : putting people in charge of politics
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ISBN: 9781447326878 1447326873 9781447326885 1447326881 9781447326892 144732689X Year: 2023 Publisher: Bristol : Policy Press,

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This important book asks where should power and governance lie in our democracy? Simon Parker, a leading expert on public services and government, claims the answer is to give power away. He offers policy recommendations and practical ideas for creating a new kind of politics focused on unleashing society's creative potential.


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Muslims in British local government : representing minority interests in Hackney, Newham, and Tower Hamlets
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ISSN: 15707571 ISBN: 9004272267 9789004272262 900426969X 9789004269699 1322223580 9781322223582 9789004269699 Year: 2014 Volume: 16 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands : Brill,

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This book investigates whether the presence of Muslim representatives in city councils improves substantive representation of Muslim interests across 32 London boroughs. It theorizes that descriptive representation of minorities leads to improved responsiveness to minority interests contingent on the percentage of minority representatives, the proportion of minorities in the district, level of party fragmentation among minority representatives, their political incorporation, and the electoral competitiveness of the district. It uses multivariate regression analysis to test the effects of these five explanatory variables. It validates the quantitative findings with case studies of three London boroughs while also investigating the role of representational styles of Muslim councillors on their political attitudes and behavior.


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Land and freedom : the MST, the Zapatistas and peasant alternatives to neoliberalism
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ISBN: 1322097968 1780327447 9781780327440 9781322097961 9781780327457 1780327455 1350220981 9781350220980 Year: 2014 Publisher: London, England : [London, England] : Zed Books, Bloomsbury Publishing,

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The Zapatistas of Chiapas and the Landless Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil are often celebrated as shining examples in the global struggle against Neoliberalism. But what have these movements achieved in more than two decades of resistance and can any of these achievements realistically contribute to an alternative development future? Through a perfect balance of grassroots testimonies, participative observation and consideration of key development and critical political economy debates, Land and Freedom compares, for the first time, the Zapatista and MST movements. Casting a spotlight on their resistance to globalising market forces Vergara-Camus gets to the heart of how these movements organise themselves and how the decommodification of social relations is key to understanding their radical development potential. -- Provided by publisher.

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Communist International -- History. --- Neoliberalism. --- Political participation -- Great Britain. --- Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra (Brazil) --- Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico) --- Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra. --- Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional. --- Latin America. --- Lateinamerika. --- Organisation der Zapatistischen Bewegung in Chiapas, Mexiko --- EZLN --- Zapatistische Nationale Befreiungsarmee --- Zapatisten --- Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional --- Zapatistische Armee der Nationalen Befreiung --- Armée Zapatiste de Libération Nationale --- Zapatista National Liberation Army --- Guerilla --- Mexiko --- Setor de Educação do MST --- Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra --- Landless Rural Workers Movement (Brazil) --- Landless Workers Movement (Brazil) --- Mouvement des sans terre du Brésil --- Mouvement des sans terres (Brazil) --- Movimento de los Trabajadores Rurales Sin Tierra (Brazil) --- Movimento dos sem Terra (Brazil) --- Movimento sem Terra (Brazil) --- Movimiento de los sin Tierra (Brazil) --- Movimiento sin Tierra (Brazil) --- MST --- Movimento dos Trabalhadores sem Terra (Brazil) --- Armée zapatiste de libération nationale (Mexico) --- Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Mexico) --- Zapatista National Liberation Army (Mexico) --- Zapatistas --- Iberoamerika --- Lateinamerikaner --- Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countries --- Neotropical region --- Neotropics --- New World tropics --- Spanish America --- Social movements --- Development studies

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