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Jeffrey Haynes - Democracy and Civil Society in the Third World: Politics and New Political Movements - 9780745616476 - V9780745616476
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Democracy and Civil Society in the Third World: Politics and New Political Movements

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Description for Democracy and Civil Society in the Third World: Politics and New Political Movements Paperback. aeo A highly accessible account of the rise of contemporary popular political, social and economic movements in the Third World. aeo Examines the widespread emergence of popular movements in Latin America, Africa and Asia, arguing that these groups developed from a growing interest in democratic change during the 1980s and 1990s. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1QFG; GTF; JPHV; JPWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 324.

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745616476
SKU
V9780745616476
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Jeffrey Haynes
Jeffrey Haynes is the author of Democracy and Civil Society in the Third World: Politics and New Political Movements, published by Wiley.

Reviews for Democracy and Civil Society in the Third World: Politics and New Political Movements
"In this thoughtful book, Haynes focuses on what is clearly a significant but hitherto relatively neglected recent trend in Third World societies - the spread of 'action groups'. He usefully brings together evidence of group activity across the range of Third World regions, social bases and issues. While careful neither to romanticize nor to overgeneralize, he shows how these groups ... Read more

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