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dc.contributor.authorGaventa, John
dc.contributor.authorMartorano, Bruno
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-18T12:06:01Z
dc.date.available2016-11-18T12:06:01Z
dc.date.issued2016-11-18
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/12670
dc.description.abstractDrawing on the contributions from the World Social Science Report 2016, Challenging Inequalities: Pathways to a Just World, this article examines the relationship between economic inequality and political participation. In particular, using the lens of the ‘power cube’ approach (www.powercube.net), we argue that understanding the impact of inequality on political participation requires moving beyond the study of its impact on more conventional forms of participation found in voting and ‘voice’ through established or formal democratic processes. Indeed, this relationship is also influenced by hidden and invisible forms of power, at multiple levels from the local to the global, which affect the rules of the game as well as individuals’ aspiration to participate, shaping whether, where and how citizens engage at all. Despite the power of inequality to shape its own consensus, recent evidence also points to the emergence of levels and forms of resistance to inequality outside of traditional channels of participation, which in turn help to expand and prefigure notions of what the new possibilities of change might be. Exploring these dynamics, the article concludes with a brief reflection on possible lessons for activists, policymakers and scholars working to understand, unravel and challenge the knotty intersections of inequality, power and participation.en
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dc.publisherInstitute of Development Studiesen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIDS Bulletin;47.5
dc.rightsThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International licence, which permits downloading and sharing provided the original authors and source are credited – but the work is not used for commercial purposes. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcodeen
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dc.subjectParticipationen
dc.subjectPolitics and Poweren
dc.titleInequality, Power and Participation – Revisiting the Linksen
dc.typeSeries paper (IDS)en
dc.rights.holderInstitute of Development Studiesen
dc.identifier.teamPower and Popular Politicsen
dc.identifier.doi10.19088/1968-2016.164
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