2016 -: Recent submissions

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    • Men and Women of Words: How Words Divide and Connect the Bunge La Mwananchi Movement in Kenya 

      Calleb Otieno, David; Kabala, Nathaniel; Scott-Villiers, Patta; Gachihi, Gacheke; Muthoni Ndung’u, Diana (Institute of Development Studies, 2016-01-11)
      How does a movement for social justice, whose members are mainly drawn from the lower economic strata of society, build and sustain its power in the face of co-option, and social and geographical division? Members of the ...

    • The Right of Access to Information: Exploring Gender Inequities 

      Neuman, Laura (Institute of Development Studies, 2016-01-11)
      The right of access to information is a fundamental and universal right, necessary for economic empowerment and the fulfilment of other rights. However, the recent study discussed in this article demonstrates that women ...

    • ‘You Have to Raise a Fist!’: Seeing and Speaking to the State in South Africa 

      Mills, Elizabeth (Institute of Development Studies, 2016-01-11)
      Since joining the Open Governance Partnership in 2011, South Africa has been committed to addressing the ‘grand challenge’ of open governance through improving public services, creating safer communities and increasing ...

    • When Does the State Listen? 

      Loureiro, Miguel; Cassim, Aalia; Darko, Terence; Katera, Lucas; Salome, Nyambura (Institute of Development Studies, 2016-01-11)
      In this article, we look at four cases of key historical policies in Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania to examine how states engage with citizen voices. The policies all took place in contexts of political change and ...

    • ICTs Help Citizens Voice Concerns over Water – Or Do They? 

      Welle, Katharina; Williams, Jennifer; Pearce, Joseph (Institute of Development Studies, 2016-01-11)
      Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are widely seen as a new avenue for citizens to hold service providers and government to account. But if citizens live in rural Africa, Asia or Latin America, are they ...

    • When Does ICT-Enabled Citizen Voice Lead to Government Responsiveness? 

      Peixoto, Tiago; Fox, Jonathan (Institute of Development Studies, 2016-01-11)
      This article reviews evidence on the use of 23 information and communications technology (ICT) platforms to project citizen voice to improve public service delivery. This meta-analysis focuses on empirical studies of ...

    • Introduction: Opening Governance – Change, Continuity and Conceptual Ambiguity 

      McGee, Rosemary; Edwards, Duncan (Institute of Development Studies, 2016-01-11)
      Open government and open data are new areas of research, advocacy and activism that have entered the governance field alongside the more established areas of transparency and accountability. This article reviews recent ...

    • Notes on Contributors 

      McGee, Rosemary; Edwards, Duncan (Institute of Development Studies, 2016-01-11)