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The Making and Unmaking of a New Democratic Space (2017)
Book Chapter
Cornwall, A. (2017). The Making and Unmaking of a New Democratic Space. In S. E. Alvarez, J. W. Rubin, M. Thayer, G. Baiocchi, & A. Laó-Montes (Eds.), Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America (63-80). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822373353-004

Narratives of civil society participation often paint an overly rosy picture of engaged citizens enlivening democratic deliberation and democratizing decision-making. In this chapter, I draw on ethnographic research in a “new democratic space” in nor... Read More about The Making and Unmaking of a New Democratic Space.