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dc.contributor.authorSchneider, Aaron
dc.contributor.authorZuniga-Hamlin, Rebeca
dc.coverage.spatialPeruen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-24T09:25:39Z
dc.date.available2014-06-24T09:25:39Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier.citationSchneider, A. & R. Zuniga-Hamlin (2005) Governance hybrids : pro-poor, rights-based approaches in rural Peru. Working paper series, 240. Brighton: IDS.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/4089
dc.description.abstractHow do we understand the hybrid forms of governance that occasionally emerge when rights-based approaches (RBA) are introduced into contexts of extreme poverty? Poverty is multidimensional, and any attempt to respond to poverty must offer internally consistent responses to each of the dimensions. RBA offers a coherent set of economic, social and political responses to poverty that promise substantive change in the social order. In rural Peru in 2002, a host of local and national movements were eager to experiment with new RBA alternatives to address intense poverty. The introduction of RBA did not occur in a vacuum, however, and existing clientelist practices mixed with RBA to produce governance hybrids. At first glance, this combination seems unusual. Clientelism and RBA are usually seen as mutually exclusive, polar opposites; clientelism reproduces poverty while RBA transforms it. Yet, the current study demonstrates a variety of hybrid RBA and clientelist practices that imply different degrees of benefit for poor citizens. At a conceptual level, this study suggests we need to reevaluate discrete categories of rights and clientelism and allow for a continuum that would include a number of intermediate, hybrid steps. Policymakers may want to take these hybrids into account when designing their interventions to move in the direction of greater rights, rather than watered down RBA or reversion to clientelism. Keywords: rights, citizenship, democracy, decentralisation, clientelism, politics, party, Peru, governance.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherIDSen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIDS working papers;240
dc.rights.urihttp://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdfen_GB
dc.subjectGovernanceen_GB
dc.subjectPovertyen_GB
dc.subjectRightsen_GB
dc.subjectRural Developmenten_GB
dc.titleGovernance hybrids : pro-poor, rights-based approaches in rural Peruen_GB
dc.typeIDS Working Paperen_GB
dc.rights.holderInstitute of Development Studiesen_GB
dc.identifier.koha151027


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