Participation--From Tyranny to Transformation?: Exploring by Samuel Hickey, Giles Mohan
By Samuel Hickey, Giles Mohan
Participatory strategies have verified themselves in either undertaking implementation in constructing international locations and group interventions in commercial international locations. lately, participation has been fashionably pushed aside as extra rhetoric than substance, and topic to manipulation via brokers pursuing their very own agendas less than disguise of neighborhood consent. during this very important new quantity, improvement and different social coverage students and practitioners search to rebut this simplistic end. They express how participation may also help produce real transformation for marginalized groups. This quantity is the 1st entire try and overview the kingdom of participatory ways within the aftermath of the "Tyranny" critique. It captures the new convergence among participatory improvement and participatory governance. It revisits the query of well known supplier, in addition to spanning the diversity of institutional actors involved--the kingdom, civil society and donor firms. the amount embeds participation inside modern advances in improvement idea.
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Conversely, expressions of global civil society or citizenship may simply be vacuous without meaningful links to the local. The challenge is not only how to build participatory governance at differing levels, but how to promote the democratic and accountable vertical links across actors and institutions at each level. As Pieterse puts it: ‘this involves a double movement, from local reform upward and from global reform downward – each level of governance, from the local to the global, plays a contributing part’ (quoted in Mohan and Stokke 2000: 263).
In general, I argue that bringing more direct and empowered forms of participation into the local governance sphere can lead to both democracy-building and pro-poor developmental outcomes, but only under certain conditions. Finally, I conclude that simply creating new institutional arrangements for participatory governance will not necessarily be more inclusive or more pro-poor. Rather, much will depend on the nature of the power relations which surround and imbue these new, potentially more democratic, spaces.
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