Description
| Product ID: | 9781108717335 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Democracy at Work |
| Subtitle: | Pathways to Well-Being in Brazil |
| Authors: | Author: Brian Wampler, Natasha Borges Sugiyama, Michael Touchton |
| Page Count: | 373 |
| Subjects: | Sociology, Sociology, Comparative politics, Political structures: democracy, Indigenous people: governance and politics, Development economics and emerging economies, Comparative politics, Political structures: democracy, Regional government, Development economics & emerging economies, Brazil |
| Description: | Democratic practices - participation, citizenship rights, and an inclusionary state - enhance human development. The book uncovers how local democratic governance improves well-being, related to poverty, health, women's empowerment, and education. Municipalities that invest in democracy attain greater human development. Commitments to democracy thus have real consequences for citizens. One of the greatest challenges in the twenty-first century is to address large, deep, and historic deficits in human development. Democracy at Work explores a crucial question: how does democracy, with all of its messy, contested, and, time-consuming features, advance well-being and improve citizens'' lives? Professors Brian Wampler, Natasha Borges Sugiyama, and Michael Touchton argue that differences in the local robustness of three democratic pathways - participatory institutions, rights-based social programs, and inclusive state capacity - best explain the variation in how democratic governments improve well-being. Using novel data from Brazil and innovative analytic techniques, the authors show that participatory institutions permit citizens to express voice and exercise vote, inclusive social programs promote citizenship rights and access to public resources, and more capable local states use public resources according to democratic principles of rights protections and equal access. The analysis uncovers how democracy works to advance capabilities related to poverty, health, women''s empowerment, and education. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-04-14 |
