Non-Governmental Public Action and Social Justice

265 Pages·2013·6.809 MB·English

by  Jude Howell (eds.)

Non-Governmental Public Action
Series Editor: J ude H owell , Professor and Director of the Centre for Civil Society,
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Non-governmental public action (NGPA) by and for disadvantaged and margin-
alized people has become increasingly significant over the past two decades.
This new book series is designed to make a fresh and original contribution to the
understanding of NGPA. It presents the findings of innovative and policy-rele-
vant research carried out by established and new scholars working in collabora-
tion with researchers across the world. The series is international in scope and
includes both theoretical and empirical work.
The series marks a departure from previous studies in this area in at least two
important respects. First, it goes beyond a singular focus on developmental
NGOs or the voluntary sector to include a range of non-governmental public
actors such as advocacy networks, campaigns and coalitions, trades unions,
peace groups, rights-based groups, cooperatives and social movements. Second,
the series is innovative in stimulating a new approach to international compara-
tive research that promotes comparison of the so-called developing world with
the so-called developed world, thereby querying the conceptual utility and rele-
vance of categories such as North and South.
Titles include :
Barbara Bompani and Maria Frahm-Arp (editors)
DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICS FROM BELOW
Exploring Religious Spaces in the African State
Dena Freeman ( editor)
PENTECOSTALISM AND DEVELOPMENT
Churches, NGOs and Social Change in Africa
Jude Howell and Jeremy Lind
COUNTER-TERRORISM, AID AND CIVIL SOCIETY
Before and After the War on Terror
Jude Howell ( editor)
GLOBAL MATTERS FOR NON-GOVERNMENTAL PUBLIC ACTION
Jude Howell
NON-GOVERNMENTAL PUBLIC ACTION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Jenny Pearce ( editor )
PARTICIPATION AND DEMOCRACY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Tim Pringle and Simon Clarke
THE CHALLENGE OF TRANSITION
Trade Unions in Russia, China and Vietnam
Andrew Wells-Dang
CIVIL SOCIETY NETWORKS IN CHINA AND VIETNAM
Informal Pathbreakers in Health and the Environment
Thomas Yarrow
DEVELOPMENT BEYOND POLITICS
Aid, Activism and NGOs in Ghana
Non-Governmental Public Action Series
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(paperback)
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Non-Governmental Public
Action and Social Justice
Edited by
Jude Howell
Professor and former Director of the Centre for Civil Society,
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
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Contents
List of Tables ix
Preface and Acknowledgements x
Notes on Contributors xii
1 Introduction 1
Jude Howell
2 Social Justice on the Shop Floor: Trade Union Reform
in Russia, China and Vietnam 14
Tim Pringle
3 From Corporatist to Autonomous: Unemployed Workers’
Organisations and the Remaking of Labour Subjectivity
in Argentina 36
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
4 Analysing Activist Cultures in the Egyptian
Workers’ Movement 60
Anne Alexander
5 The Role and Potential of Co-Operatives in the
Poverty Reduction Process 8 6
Johnston Birchall and Richard Simmons
6 NGOs, Consumer Rights and Access to Essential Medicines:
Non-Governmental Public Action in a Low-Income
Market Context 112
Phares G. M. Mujinja, Meri Koivusalo, Maureen Mackintosh
and Sudip Chaudhuri
7 Surviving the ‘Civil Society Dilemma’: Critical Factors in
Shaping the Behaviour of Non-Governmental Actors 1 36
Chris Miller, Marilyn Taylor and Joanna Howard
8 Citizen Engagement in Public Health Service Delivery:
From Collaboration to Accountability 1 59
Georgina Blanco-Mancilla
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9 A nalysing Partnership in Aid Chains: A Case Study
of the Catholic Church 181
Steven Morse and Nora McNamara
10 C onclusion 209
Jude Howell
References 2 24
Index 239
List of Tables
5.1 Is the co-operative able to reach the poorest people
in the community? 9 3
5.2 Co-operatives whose respondents say they
raise members’ incomes 9 3
5.3 Poverty reduction indicators 9 6
5.4 The organisational comparative advantages of co-operatives 102
5.5 The reform process in Tanzania and Sri Lanka compared 108
6.1 F acilities studied in rural Tanzania by district, level
and ownership 113
6.2 Interviews in India 114
6.3 Information reported by exit interviewees as provided
to them by dispensers, by education level of respondent 118
6.4 Information reported by exit interviewees as provided by
dispensers, by medicine outlet level and sector 119
6.5 I nformation dispensers stated they ‘very often’ or ‘often’
provided to consumers, by medicine outlet level and sector 120
6.6 Level of training of prescribers and dispensers:
by type of outlet 1 21
6.7 Drug shop sellers: types of diagnosis before sale of drugs 121
6.8 Information exit interviewees reported as their
right to know, by level of education 124
9.1 Summary of the agencies involved in the research 184

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