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Protest and Possibilities explores the pursuit of political reform in Malaysia, an illiberal democracy, and contrasts coalition-building and reform processes there with those of electoral authoritarian Indonesia. The study considers the roles of civil society agents (CSAs) in promoting alternative (especially noncommunal) political norms and helping to find common ground among opposition political actors, and compares recent reformist initiatives with past political trajectories. The nature of illiberal democracy encourages a combination of contained and transgressive contention, with CSAs and political parties performing distinct but complementary roles. Enough space has been allowed over time for CSAs and political parties to accumulate coalitional capital, or the mutual trust and understanding necessary for groups to find common cause and work in coalition. In addition, shifts in political opportunities and threats encourage both CSAs and political parties to alter their strategies and thinking to take advantage of windows for change, facilitating long-term normative as well as institutional change.

Political culture --- Civil society --- Political participation --- Social movements --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- Social psychology --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- Social contract --- Culture --- Political science --- Malaysia --- Indonesia --- Politics and government.

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How do individuals decide to exercise their democratic rights? This book argues that they first assess their economic autonomy, meaning their ability to make a living independent of government authorities. Before individuals consider whether their resources and organizational abilities are adequate to act on their interests, they calculate the risk of political activism to their livelihood. This is particularly evident in regions of the world where states monopolize the economy and thus can readily harass activists at their workplaces. Economic autonomy links capitalism and democracy through individuals' calculations about activism. Accounts of activists' decisions about establishing independent media, leading political organizations, and running for office and descriptions of government harassment in Russia and Kyrgyzstan, along with examples from most regions of the world, illustrate these arguments. Economic autonomy and the interaction among democratic rights help explain the global proliferation of hybrid regimes, governments that display both democratic and authoritarian characteristics.

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS -- 323 --- POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT -- 323 --- DEMOCRACY -- 323 --- Kyrgyzstan --- Democracy --- Political participation --- Russia (Federation) --- Economic conditions --- Politics and government --- #SBIB:328H263 --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Instellingen en beleid: andere GOS-staten --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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Sheila Carapico's book on civic participation in modern Yemen makes an authoritative contribution to the study of political culture in the Arabian peninsula. Relying on in-depth documentary and field research, the author traces the political dynamics of recent years, culminating in Yemeni unification, focuses on efforts to develop the political, economic and social structures of a modern, democratic government. Her wide-ranging analysis of the legal, institutional and financial aspects of state building and of popular dimensions of political liberalization, protest and participation challenge the stereotypical view of conservative Arab Muslim society. The political economy approach to the study which reveals a surprising degree of 'activism in Arabia' also helps to interpret the nature of civil society from a broad theoretical perspective. This is an important book which promises to become the definitive work on twentieth-century Yemen.

Civil society --- Political participation --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- Social contract --- Yemen (Republic) --- Politics and government. --- Société civile --- Participation politique --- Yémen --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Social change --- Political sociology --- Community organization --- anno 1970-1979 --- anno 1980-1989 --- anno 1990-1999 --- Yemen

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The paper revisits the site of a large, World Bank-financed, rural development program in China 10 years after it began and four years after disbursements ended. The program emphasized community participation in multi-sectoral interventions (including farming, animal husbandry, infrastructure and social services). Data were collected on 2,000 households in project and nonproject areas, spanning 10 years. A double-difference estimator of the program's impact (on top of pre-existing governmental programs) reveals sizeable short-term income gains that were mostly saved. Only modest gains to mean consumption emerged in the longer term-in rough accord with the gain to permanent income. Certain types of households gained more than others. The educated poor were under-covered by the community-based selection process-greatly reducing overall impact. The main results are robust to corrections for various sources of selection bias, including village targeting and interference due to spillover effects generated by the response of local governments to the external aid.

Aid Effectiveness --- Anti-Poverty --- Communities & Human Settlements --- Community Participation --- Counterfactual --- Debt Markets --- Economic Growth --- Economic Theory and Research --- Extreme Poverty --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Financial Literacy --- Household Survey --- Housing and Human Habitats --- Income --- Income Gains --- Inequality --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Market Failures --- Poor --- Poor Areas --- Poor Infrastructure --- Poverty Impact Evaluation --- Poverty Monitoring and Analysis --- Poverty Policies --- Poverty Reduction --- Poverty Reduction Project --- Rural --- Rural Development --- Rural Household --- Rural Poverty Reduction --- Services and Transfers to Poor --- Targeting

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Using new empirical case studies from around the world, this book illustrates how alternative forms of political mobilization - protests, social participation, activism, litigation & lobbying - engage with the formal institutions of representative democracy in ways that constitute the very essence of democratic politics.

Political sociology --- Developing countries --- Political participation --- Democracy --- Democracy -- Case studies. --- Democracy. --- Political participation -- Case studies. --- Political participation. --- Government - General --- Law, Politics & Government --- Political Institutions & Public Administration - General --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- Political participation - Case studies --- Democracy - Case studies --- Petroleum industry and trade --- Petroleum & oil industries --- Political aspects --- United States --- Foreign economic relations. --- Foreign relations --- Political activism --- Politics & government --- Civil rights & citizenship --- Foreign economic relations --- International relations. Foreign policy --- natuurlijke grondstoffen --- United States of America