Jonathan Fox
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198781837
- eISBN:
- 9780191598968
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198781830.003.0016
- Subject:
- Political Science, Democratization
Democracy requires elections, but elections do not always guarantee the organizational autonomy that citizenship requires. Clientelism stands in opposition to autonomy, and its change from an ...
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Democracy requires elections, but elections do not always guarantee the organizational autonomy that citizenship requires. Clientelism stands in opposition to autonomy, and its change from an authoritarian form, where compliance is gained by threats of coercion, goes through many stages before arriving at full autonomy for groups. This study examines a series of three Mexican rural development programmes from the mid 1970s through the 1980s, with an emphasis on the rural Solidarity funds. These show change, but many obstacles, yielding a new form of popular linkage to politics, here called semi‐clientelism, distinctive because compliance is gained by the threat of withholding benefits rather than coercion, while organizations still have no right to autonomy. As a result of bargaining among three key actors, social movements, authoritarian elites, and reformist state managers, voters are less coerced, but still limited.Less
Democracy requires elections, but elections do not always guarantee the organizational autonomy that citizenship requires. Clientelism stands in opposition to autonomy, and its change from an authoritarian form, where compliance is gained by threats of coercion, goes through many stages before arriving at full autonomy for groups. This study examines a series of three Mexican rural development programmes from the mid 1970s through the 1980s, with an emphasis on the rural Solidarity funds. These show change, but many obstacles, yielding a new form of popular linkage to politics, here called semi‐clientelism, distinctive because compliance is gained by the threat of withholding benefits rather than coercion, while organizations still have no right to autonomy. As a result of bargaining among three key actors, social movements, authoritarian elites, and reformist state managers, voters are less coerced, but still limited.
PATRICIA LYNCH
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199256211
- eISBN:
- 9780191719677
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199256211.003.07
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter begins by discussing the reasons for the prevailing historiographical neglect of rural politics. It clarifies several points regarding the relationship between the rural voters and the ...
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This chapter begins by discussing the reasons for the prevailing historiographical neglect of rural politics. It clarifies several points regarding the relationship between the rural voters and the Liberal party, and the differences between the semi-official political culture of the late Victorian Liberal party and the more informal, but no less strongly ingrained, political culture of the radical rural electorate. It also focuses the discussion on case studies in North Essex, South Oxfordshire, and the Holmfirth division of the West Riding of Yorkshire by taking a look at their economic, political, demographic, and religious conditions. It notes that this study relied heavily on sources such as rural press; the private papers of three Liberal politicians: Herbert Samuel, Joseph Albert Pease, and Henry Joseph Wilson; and the sparse official party records on rural Liberalism.Less
This chapter begins by discussing the reasons for the prevailing historiographical neglect of rural politics. It clarifies several points regarding the relationship between the rural voters and the Liberal party, and the differences between the semi-official political culture of the late Victorian Liberal party and the more informal, but no less strongly ingrained, political culture of the radical rural electorate. It also focuses the discussion on case studies in North Essex, South Oxfordshire, and the Holmfirth division of the West Riding of Yorkshire by taking a look at their economic, political, demographic, and religious conditions. It notes that this study relied heavily on sources such as rural press; the private papers of three Liberal politicians: Herbert Samuel, Joseph Albert Pease, and Henry Joseph Wilson; and the sparse official party records on rural Liberalism.
Kathryn Gleadle
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264492
- eISBN:
- 9780191734274
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264492.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of women's involvement in British political culture in the first half of the nineteenth century. It is based on extensive archival research, but also ...
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This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of women's involvement in British political culture in the first half of the nineteenth century. It is based on extensive archival research, but also engages with recent feminist theories in the social sciences, such as psychology and sociology. The volume looks at both rural and urban experiences of politics. The author throws new light on women's political activities and challenges many traditional assumptions about contemporary politics. The book gives fresh insights into the Reform Act of 1832, pays attention to continuities in political practice and ideas, and brings focus to the primary significance of parish politics within the day-to-day activities of the middling and gentry classes.Less
This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of women's involvement in British political culture in the first half of the nineteenth century. It is based on extensive archival research, but also engages with recent feminist theories in the social sciences, such as psychology and sociology. The volume looks at both rural and urban experiences of politics. The author throws new light on women's political activities and challenges many traditional assumptions about contemporary politics. The book gives fresh insights into the Reform Act of 1832, pays attention to continuities in political practice and ideas, and brings focus to the primary significance of parish politics within the day-to-day activities of the middling and gentry classes.
Michael Woods
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861349323
- eISBN:
- 9781447302858
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861349323.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the Labour government's rural policy in Great Britain since 1997. The book is divided into three parts. The first part addresses the ...
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This chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the Labour government's rural policy in Great Britain since 1997. The book is divided into three parts. The first part addresses the broad themes and features of New Labour's rural policy; the second focuses on the key issues that have defined New Labour's engagement with rural politics including the Foot and Mouth crisis, hunting, housing development, the ‘right to roam’, and agricultural-policy reform; and the third examines the treatment of rural issues within broader policy arenas. The book also analyses the position of rural-policy reforms in Britain since 1997 within a broader context, drawing on wider analytical frameworks and exploring links to larger-scale political agendas and processes of restructuring.Less
This chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the Labour government's rural policy in Great Britain since 1997. The book is divided into three parts. The first part addresses the broad themes and features of New Labour's rural policy; the second focuses on the key issues that have defined New Labour's engagement with rural politics including the Foot and Mouth crisis, hunting, housing development, the ‘right to roam’, and agricultural-policy reform; and the third examines the treatment of rural issues within broader policy arenas. The book also analyses the position of rural-policy reforms in Britain since 1997 within a broader context, drawing on wider analytical frameworks and exploring links to larger-scale political agendas and processes of restructuring.
Peter McPhee
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198202257
- eISBN:
- 9780191675249
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202257.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This book is a scholarly study of rural politics in France during the Second Republic (1848–52). The Revolution of 1848 and the subsequent regime changed the face of mass politics in France; ...
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This book is a scholarly study of rural politics in France during the Second Republic (1848–52). The Revolution of 1848 and the subsequent regime changed the face of mass politics in France; unprecedented numbers of French men and women participated in legal and illegal forms of political activity during a period of protracted crisis ultimately resolved by a military coup d'état. In exploring the neglected history of rural France in this period, the book draws on hundreds of regional studies to examine the large-scale political mobilizations of right and left in the countryside, and offers a new synthesis and interpretation of these years. The book shows that rural politics were both more complex and more threatening to urban élites than has been generally recognized, and provides an analysis of a turbulent period in modern French history and its long-term social and political consequences.Less
This book is a scholarly study of rural politics in France during the Second Republic (1848–52). The Revolution of 1848 and the subsequent regime changed the face of mass politics in France; unprecedented numbers of French men and women participated in legal and illegal forms of political activity during a period of protracted crisis ultimately resolved by a military coup d'état. In exploring the neglected history of rural France in this period, the book draws on hundreds of regional studies to examine the large-scale political mobilizations of right and left in the countryside, and offers a new synthesis and interpretation of these years. The book shows that rural politics were both more complex and more threatening to urban élites than has been generally recognized, and provides an analysis of a turbulent period in modern French history and its long-term social and political consequences.
Gavin Parker
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861349323
- eISBN:
- 9781447302858
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861349323.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter discusses the culmination of the Labour government's historic campaign for a ‘right to roam’ in the 2000 Countryside and Rights of Way Act (CRoW). It provides a brief commentary and ...
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This chapter discusses the culmination of the Labour government's historic campaign for a ‘right to roam’ in the 2000 Countryside and Rights of Way Act (CRoW). It provides a brief commentary and policy history on the issue of countryside access in terms of rural politics. The chapter argues that the issue of accessibility has not been sufficiently addressed by complicated, managerial legislative provisions for open access.Less
This chapter discusses the culmination of the Labour government's historic campaign for a ‘right to roam’ in the 2000 Countryside and Rights of Way Act (CRoW). It provides a brief commentary and policy history on the issue of countryside access in terms of rural politics. The chapter argues that the issue of accessibility has not been sufficiently addressed by complicated, managerial legislative provisions for open access.
Sirpa Tenhunen
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190630270
- eISBN:
- 9780190876562
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190630270.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Psychology and Interaction
Chapter 6 provides an overview of the studies on new media’s role for political activism and then examines how mobile phones mediate political action by exploring activists’ use of mobile phones for ...
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Chapter 6 provides an overview of the studies on new media’s role for political activism and then examines how mobile phones mediate political action by exploring activists’ use of mobile phones for their daily political work in rural West Bengal. The ethnographic fieldwork was carried out during the rise of the opposition, the Trinamul Congress Party, in West Bengal; consequently, the chapter also highlights the factors that helped bring the Trinamul Congress Party to power after decades of the Left Front Government’s rule of the state. This chapter illustrates how phone use builds on earlier political patterns and meanings, but has made politics faster, more heterogeneous, and translocal. Incidents that appear to be spontaneous reactions to the ruling party’s misdeeds often originate in communication between different levels of party hierarchies, followed by the horizontal spreading of information both within and outside the party.Less
Chapter 6 provides an overview of the studies on new media’s role for political activism and then examines how mobile phones mediate political action by exploring activists’ use of mobile phones for their daily political work in rural West Bengal. The ethnographic fieldwork was carried out during the rise of the opposition, the Trinamul Congress Party, in West Bengal; consequently, the chapter also highlights the factors that helped bring the Trinamul Congress Party to power after decades of the Left Front Government’s rule of the state. This chapter illustrates how phone use builds on earlier political patterns and meanings, but has made politics faster, more heterogeneous, and translocal. Incidents that appear to be spontaneous reactions to the ruling party’s misdeeds often originate in communication between different levels of party hierarchies, followed by the horizontal spreading of information both within and outside the party.
