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At the nexus of political science, development studies, and public policy, Developing States, Shaping Citizenship analyzes an overlooked driver of political behavior: citizens' past experience with the government through service provision. Using evidence from Zambia, this book demonstrates that the quality of citizens' interactions with the government through service provision sends them important signals about what they can hope to gain from political action. These interactions influence not only formal political behaviors like voting, but also collective behavior, political engagement, and subversive behaviors like tax evasion. Lack of capacity for service delivery not only undermines economic growth and human development, but also citizens' confidence in the responsiveness of the political system. Absent this confidence, citizens are much less likely to participate in democratic processes, express their preferences, or comply with state revenue collection. Economic development and political development in low-capacity states, Hern argues, are concurrent processes. Erin Accampo Hern draws on original data from an original large-N survey, interviews, Afrobarometer data, and archival materials collected over 12 months in Zambia. The theory underlying this book's framework is that of policy feedback, which argues that policies, once in place, influence the subsequent political participation of the affected population. This theory has predominantly been applied to advanced industrial democracies, and this book is the first explicit effort to adapt the theory to the developing country context.

Citizenship --- Civics --- Zambia --- Political activity.

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"This is the first study of the British Women's Liberation Movement's relationship with class politics. It explores the meaning of class to women's liberationists' identities and activism, both nationally and regionally, using a previously neglected feminist cluster in North East England as a case study. Stevenson demonstrates that British feminism was shaped fundamentally by its relationship to, synthesis with, and rejection of class politics. Through these processes, feminists recognised how post-war changes in the economy and gender roles were reshaping class and the Women's Liberation Movement attempted to remake class politics in response. However, socio-economic and cultural class differences between the women involved - linked to occupation, education and background - remained intractable obstacles causing tensions within groups, fragmentations into specific class-based groups and the ultimate failure of the movement to coalesce into a coherent coalition with labour politics, despite great levels of solidarity around particular struggles. Examining regional feminism against the national backdrop, The Women's Liberation Movement and the Politics of Class in Britain provides an engaging exploration of the fruitful but challenging relationship between British feminism and class politics in a capitalist society."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Feminism --- Feminists --- History --- Political activity

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"Das Lesbische Aktionszentrum Westberlin trug maßgeblich zur bundesdeutschen Emanzipationsbewegung von Lesben und Frauen bei. Anhand des Archivmaterials macht Lara Ledwa historisches Wissen u¨ber marginalisierte, politische und soziale Ka¨mpfe zuga¨nglich und verknu¨pft es mit aktuellen theoretischen Ansa¨tzen, die fu¨r die lesbisch_queeren Bewegungen wichtig sind. Sie wu¨rdigt den feministischen, lesbischen und antikapitalistischen Widerstand der Aktivistinnen, untersucht aber auch kritisch die teilweise ausschließenden lesbisch-feministischen Positionen. Dadurch ero¨ffnet Ledwa einen solidarischen Dialog zwischen verschiedenen aktivistischen Lagern und Generationen."-- Provided by publisher.

Gay liberation movement --- Lesbians --- Political activity.

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Protest movements --- Youth --- Political activity --- Afghanistan.