Empowered Participation or Political Manipulation?

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

x, 204 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Rabab El-Mahdi, Ph.D. (2005), Political Science, McGill University. Assistant Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo. Co-Editor of Egypt: The Moment for Change (Zed Press, 2009). Her aticles were published in Comparative Political Studies, Review of African Political Economy, and Politics, Religion, & Ideology.

Readership

Students of political science, sociology and anthropology interested in the Middle East, Latin America and the global South more generally. Activists, policy-makers, and professionals working on issues of governance, equity, and civil society.

List of Acronyms
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Civil Society, the State, Neoliberalism, and Social Policy
3. Two Civil Societies: History and Evolution
4. The Egyptian Social Fund for Development: Is it Such a Failure?
5. The Bolivian Fund: Is it Really the Model?
6. Engineering Consent: The De-Politicization of the Political
Appendix: A Note on Research Methodology and Techniques
Postscript
Interviews
Bibliography
Index

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