ISBN: 9780199256440 - gender justice, development and rights (oxford studies in democratization) (4 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 504 pages. The 1990s represented a shift in the international development agenda in the direction of a greater emphasis on rights and democracy. This brought many posit ive changes in women's rights and political representation as well as in human r ights more broadly. In much of the world, however, these advances were not match ed by significant progress in the achievement of greater social justice. Rising income inequalities, coupled with widespread poverty in many countries, have bee n accompanied by record levels of crime and violence. Meanwhile the global shift in the consensus over the role of the state in welfare provision has in many co ntexts entailed the down-sizing of public services and the re-allocation of serv ice delivery to commercial interests, charitable groups, NGOs and households.Liberalism and its Discontents reflects on this ambivalent record, and on the s ignificance accorded in international development policy to rights and democracy in the post-Cold War era. Key items on the contemporary policy agenda-neo-liber al economic and social policies; democracy; and multiculturalism-are addressed h ere by leading scholars and regional specialists through theoretical reflections and detailed case studies. Together they constitute a collection which casts co ntemporary liberalism in a distinctive light by applying a gender perspective to the analysis of political and policy processes. Case studies from Latin America , sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, East-Central Europe, South and South-east Asi a contribute a cross-cultural dimension to the analysis of contemporary liberali sm-the dominant value system in the modern world-and how it exists, and is resis ted, in developing and post-transition societies.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. pp.xii, 492 pages, a fine hardback in a very good dust-jacket - a book in the Oxford Studies in Democratization series [0199256446].

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. xii, 492 pages ; 24 cm. Contents: PART I: RE-THINKING LIBERAL RIGHTS AND UNIVERSALISM ; PART II: SOCIAL SECTOR RESTRUCTURING AND SOCIAL RIGHTS ; PART III: DEMOCRATISATION AND THE POLITICS OF GENDER ; PART IV: MULTICULTURALISMS IN PRACTICE.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Hardcover with jacket in good condition. Jacket is lightly scored and worn. Front upper leading corner is slightly tanned. Jacket spine is slightly sunned. Jacket and hardcover spine ends are lightly bumped. Minor bump and closed nicks on lower edge of front board. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW. Used.…