Democracy at Large: NGOs, Political Foundations, Think Tanks and International Organizations

by B. Petric (Editor)

Overview

An analysis of the transnationalization of politics in several societies concerned by programs of democracy promotion, the contributors to this book seek to understand how these new global norms and programs create forms of appropriation and resistance at the local level.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137032744
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	10/22/2012
Series:	The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 2.60(d)

About the Author

DOSTENA ANGUELOVA-LAVERGNE PhD from L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France LAETITIA ATLANI-DUAULT Associate Professor of Anthropology at Paris X Nanterre University, France ROMAIN BERTRAND Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Research and Studies (CERI, Sciences Po / CNRS) in Paris, France GIORGIO BLUNDO Associate Professor at EHESS (Marseille) in Social and Political Anthropology, France DEJAN DIMITRIJEVIC Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Nice University, France RAPHAËLLE MATHEY finishing a PhD in Political Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), France ALESSANDRO MONSUTTI Research Associate and Lecturer in the South Asian Studies Council at Yale University, USA MARC ANTOINE PÉROUSE DE MONTCLOS Lecturer at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (IEP), France and a Researcher at the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) DAVID RECONDO Research Fellow at the CERI and he teaches Political Science at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris (Sciences Po), France

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: Democracy Promotion and the Transnationalization of Politics: Perspectives from Below Boris Pétric and Giorgio Blundo (EHESS, Marseille) 1: From Advocacy to Political Engagement State, NGOs and 'Good Governance' Policies in Senegal Giorgio Blundo (EHESS, Marseille) 2: Electoral Observation and NGO Coalitions in Kyrgyzstan Boris Pétric 3: Think Tanks: Actors in The Transition to Global Politics: A Bulgarian Case Study Dostena Anguelova-Lavergne (EHESS, Paris) 4: The Question of Presumed Political Prisoners in Azerbaïdjan : Conditionalities of The Council of Europe Raphaelle Mathey (postdoctoral fellow, EHESS, Paris) 5: Participating Decentralization in Bolivia : The Geneaology of An Institutional Transplant David Recondo (Sciences Po, Paris) 6: Democracy Promotion, Local Participation and Transnational Governmentality in Afghanistan Alessandro Monsutti (IHEID, Geneva) 7: NGOs and The State: Clash or Class? Circulating Elites of 'Good Governance' in Serbia Theodora Vetta (PhD student, EHESS, Paris) 8: Multiple Sovereignty and Trans-nationalism in A Nation State: Aga Khan Development Network in Hunza, Pakistan Shafqat Hussain (Trinity College) 9: Jakarta's Spring, Democracy-building, Organizations and The Renaissance of Indonesian Multipartism Romain Bertrand (sciences po, CERI) 10: Nigeria, 'Democrazy' and The German Political Foundations Marc Antoine Pérouse de Montclos (Institut de Recherche pour le développement) 11: Cuba's Democratic transition: in search of the event Dejan Dimitrijevic (Nice University, France)

Editorial Reviews

"Petric and his colleagues trace the imbrications of 'transnational civil society' with local power structures and traditions, showing how NGOs' very denial of political involvement and their claims to purely technical legitimacy have strong political consequences. A milestone in the social scientific study of democracy."

John R. Bowen, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis

"This book is a welcome addition to scholarship on democracy in regions across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean that are negotiating political futures beyond authoritarian government. It presents a vital dialogue between anthropology and politics grounded in vibrant case studies that examine democracy in the very process of its production in countries as diverse as Afghanistan, Bolivia, Romania, and Senegal."

K. Sivaramakrishnan, Department of Anthropology, Yale University

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