Contesting 'Good' Governance: Crosscultural Perspectives on Representation, Accountability and Public Space - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0700714944 ISBN 13: 9780700714940

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

Research in localities in India, Cuba, Ethiopia, Taiwan and Lebanon is used to develop a broader understanding of global political phenomena such as democracy, representation and accountability. To contextualise aspects of 'good' governance the articles in the volume deal with people's perceptions of and interactions with the state; how they interpret government laws and regulations; how they interact with officials and how they comment on acts and speeches made by local bureaucrats and national power holders. Through a discussion of the much debated distinction between private and public, the articles show how the notions of public and private are interconnected in many ways, how they are contested and reformulated by people based on their experiences, and how they can be used as a tool in questioning dominant ideas and ways of executing 'good' governance.

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About the Author

Eva Poluha is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University and has spent over 30 years researching peasant-state relations, democracy, gender, ethnicity and political change in Europe. Mona Rosendahl is Associate Professor affiliated to the Department of Social Anthropology and the Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0700714944
• ISBN 13: 9780700714940
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Poluha Eva, Rosendahl Mona