Accountability politics
Subtitle: power and voice in rural Mexico
By: Jonathan Fox.
Series: Oxford studies in democratization
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780199208852
Subjects: Political participation -- Mexico.; Civil society -- Mexico.; Peasantry -- Mexico -- Political activity.; Social capital (Sociology) -- Mexico.; Rural development -- Mexico -- Citizen participation.; Mexico -- Rural conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [356]-426)and index.
Table of contents: value: Transitions to accountability : disentangling state and regime; value: Civil society and accountability politics; value: How does civil society thicken? the political construction of social capital in rural Mexico; value: Democratic rural development : leadership accountability in regional peasant organizations; value: National electoral choices in rural Mexico; value: Contrasting theory and practice : the World Bank and social capital in rural Mexico; value: Decentralizing decentralization : Mexico's invisible fourth level of the state; value: Comparing regional rural development councils : do invited spaces' empower?; value: Accessing accountability : individual versus collective voices; value: Exit followed by voice : Mexico's migrant civil society; value: Unpacking accountability politics.