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17%OFFPeter (Ed) Newell - Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability - 9781842775554 - V9781842775554
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Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability

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Description for Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability Paperback. Explores the range of ways in which the poor mobilise to claim their rights and demand accountability, and the strategies they use towards the state, the private sector, international institutions and within civil society itself. Editor(s): Newell, Peter; Wheeler, Joanna. Series: Claiming Citizenship. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GTF; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.
'Development is a process, Amartya Sen famously noted, of 'expanding the real freedoms that people enjoy'. But freedoms depend upon on political and civil rights, or more properly a corpus of rights capable of removing such unfreedoms as tyranny, exclusion and neglect. Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability is the first study to seriously explore how the poor claim, contest and secure rights and how the rights of the powerful are deployed to defend their privileges and to control resources and access to power. Drawing upon exemplary case studies - spanning the globe from Mexico to Nigeria to India ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Claiming Citizenship
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781842775554
SKU
V9781842775554
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99-50

About Peter (Ed) Newell
Dr. Peter Newell is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick. Joanna Wheeler is the research manager for the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation, and Accountability (Citizenship DRC.

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'Development is a process, Amartya Sen famously noted, of 'expanding the real freedoms that people enjoy'. But freedoms depend upon on political and civil rights, or more properly a corpus of rights capable of removing such unfreedoms as tyranny, exclusion and neglect. Rights, Resources and the Politics of Accountability is the first study to seriously explore how the poor claim, ... Read more

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