Democracy, Participatory Politics and Development: Some Comparative Lessons from Brazil, India and South Africa

@article{Heller2012DemocracyPP,
  title={Democracy, Participatory Politics and Development: Some Comparative Lessons from Brazil, India and South Africa},
  author={Patrick Heller},
  journal={Polity},
  year={2012},
  volume={44},
  pages={643-665}
}
  • P. Heller
  • Published 10 September 2012
  • Political Science
  • Polity
This article argues that in thinking about the challenges of inclusive democratic development in the global south we need to refocus attention on effective citizenship, that is, the actual capacity of citizens to make use of formal political and civic rights. Empirically this calls for closer analytic attention to the participatory dimensions of democracy and specifically to an examination of the political and institutional conditions under which decentralized participatory governance can be… 
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