Citizenship, Participation and Accountability (DRC): Recent submissions
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Citizenship and displacement
(Institute of Development Studies (UK), 2011-03)Crucial for displaced people is citizenship (or the lack of it). In conventional terms, citizenship is seen as political membership in a given nation-state through which citizens possess civil, political, economic and ... -
Violence, security and democracy: perverse interfaces and their implications for states and citizens in the global South
(Institute of Development Studies (UK), 2011-04)How does violence affect the everyday lives of citizens in the global South? Researching this theme under the aegis of the Violence, Participation and Citizenship group of the Citizenship DRC coordinated by IDS, we generated ... -
Mobilising the state? Social mobilisation and state interaction in India, Brazil and South Africa
(Institute of Development Studies (UK), 2011-04)This paper explores how social mobilisation and the state interact, influence and mutually constitute each other in India, Brazil and South Africa. Given their broad similarities of democratic political structures, as ... -
States of citizenship: contexts and cultures of public engagement and citizen action
(Institute of Development Studies (UK), 2011-05)Drawing on case studies from the Citizenship Development Research Centre, this paper contends that mechanisms aimed at enhancing citizen engagement need to be contextualised in the states of citizenship in which they are ... -
Expert advocacy for the marginalised: how and why democratic mediation matters to deepening democracy in the global South
(Institute of Development Studies (UK), 2011-05)The paper argues that the practice of democratic mediation is an increasingly common, yet under-researched, component of engagements between citizens and public authorities across the globe. While the actors who mediate ... -
The rise of rights: rights-based approaches to international development
(Institute of Development Studies (UK), 2003-05)International development agencies are increasingly using rights-based language. But how can their policy and practice support people’s own efforts to turn their rights into reality?