Rethinking Popular Representation

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: The Problem Is Representation! Towards an Analytical Framework....Pages 1-23
What Is the Relationship Between Participation and Representation?....Pages 25-37
The Paradox of Civil Society Representation: Constructing New Forms of Democratic Legitimacy in Brazil....Pages 39-58
Symbolic Representation as Political Practice....Pages 59-78
School Provision, the Capacity to Aspire, and the State of Popular Representation in West Bengal....Pages 79-98
The Politics of Gradualismo: Popular Participation and Decentralised Governance in Mozambique....Pages 99-118
Representation by Design? Variations on Participatory Reforms in Brazilian Municipios....Pages 119-139
Patronage Democracy in Provincial Indonesia....Pages 141-159
Compromised Democracy: Observations on Popular Democratic Representation from Urban India....Pages 161-177
Trade Unions and Popular Representation: Nigeria and South Africa Compared....Pages 179-195
Popular Politics of Representation: New Lessons from the Pioneering Projects in Indonesia, Kerala, and the Philippines....Pages 197-222
From Research to Practice: Towards the Democratic Institutionalisation of Nodes for Improved Representation....Pages 223-234
Back Matter....Pages 235-273