Citizen Action and National Policy Reform : Making Change Happen (Paperback)

Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: Making Change Happen: Citizen action and national policy reform - John Gaventa and Rosemary McGee 1. Gaining Comprehensive AIDS Treatment in South Africa: the extraordinary 'ordinary' - Steven Friedman 2. Redistributing land in the Philippines: social movements and state reformers - Saturnino M. Borras Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco 3. Reducing Maternal Mortality in Mexico: building vertical alliances for change - Michael D. Layton, Beatriz Campillo Carrete, Ireri Ablanedo Terrazas, Ana Maria Sanchez Rodriguez 4. Protecting the Child in Chile: civil Society and the state - Claudio Fuentes 5. Winning the Right to Information in India: Is knowledge power? - Amita Baviskar 6. Democratising Urban Policy in Brazil: participation and the right to the city - Leonardo Avritzer 7. Winning Women's Rights in Morocco: cultural Adaptations and Islamic family law - Alexandra Pittman and Rabea Naciri 8. Re/Forming Laws to Secure Women's Rights in Turkey: The campaign on the Penal Code - Pinar Ilkkaracan