Andréa Cornwall, Vera Schattan P. Coelho
* Foreword - John Gaventa * 1. Spaces for Change? The Politics of Participation in New Democratic Arenas - Andrea Cornwall and Vera Schattan Coelho * Part I: The Challenge of Inclusion ** 2. Brazilian Health Councils: including the excluded? - Vera Coelho ** 3. Spaces for participatio...
Vera Schattan P. Coelho, Andréa Cornwall
The challenge of building democratic polities where all can realize their rights and claim their citizenship is one of the greatest of our age.Reforms in governance have generated a profusion of new spaces for citizen engagement.In some settings, older institutions with legacies in colonial rule hav...