Democracy and Civil Society in the Third World Politics and New Political Movements

by Haynes, Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9780745616476
• ISBN10: 074561647X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-12-19
• Publisher: Polity

Summary

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 more political representation and greater economic development; others were concerned with environmental protection, the broad position of women and the establishment of Islamic states and societies. 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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

List of Tables

Preface

Introduction

Action Groups in Regional Focus

Macroeconomic Decline and Action Groups

Democracy and Indigenous Peoples

Environmental Protection

Women and Empowerment

Islamist Action Groups

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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