Civil Society Organizations, Advocacy, and Policy Making in Latin American Democracies

Risley, Amy

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“…In recent years, there has been closer attention to social movements' routines and private politics (e.g. Risley, 2015). Yet the theoretical and conceptual instruments for exploring the backstage of protests remain limited.…”

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Federico M. Rossi, The Poor’s Struggle for Political Incorporation: The Piquetero Movement in Argentina

Fontana

2019

International Sociology

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Federico M. Rossi, The Poor’s Struggle for Political Incorporation: The Piquetero Movement in Argentina

Fontana

2019

International Sociology

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“…It is far from clear, however, what is taking their place. On the one hand, at least in most Latin American systems, the organization of private groups within society has pluralized immensely with democratization and the emergence of a vibrant civil society sector (Avritzer, 2002;Risley, 2015). On the other hand, the question of how the law governs private access to public rulemaking and whether, overall, that law is informed by a competitive or mediated, i.e., balanced, vision of state-society relations remains an open one.…”

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Introduction. A new field: comparative law and regulation

Bignami¹

2016

Comparative Law and Regulation

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When individuals post their photographs, shopping habits, and other personal data to social networking sites they are tracked and potentially harassed by the scores of corporate actors with access to their data. As governments worldwide have sprung into action to address this regulatory problem, industry groups and consumer advocates have also mobilized. To give but one example, in the past three years, the world's leading social networking company has defended lawsuits claiming unfair consumer tracking in the United States and the European Union (EU), has settled administrative and civil enforcement actions brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the Belgian Data Protection Authority, and the Hamburg Data Protection Authority, and has lobbied for looser consumer-tracking rules in the European Union, the United States, Latin American countries, and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation system. 1 Although there are substantial limits on what social networking sites can do with personal data in the European Union and many Latin American countries, there are relatively few restrictions in the United States and various Asian jurisdictions. Parabens are a group of chemicals widely used in cosmetics and personal care products. Although they significantly extend the shelf life of creams and sprays, they have also been linked to cancer and other types of health concerns. The regulatory battle over whether to ban or restrict their use is occurring in legislatures, administrative agencies, and international organizations throughout the world. Multinational corporations, members of the scientific community, and environmental and consumer groups have sparred over parabens in a vast array of venues-to name just a few, the

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“…Furthermore, NGOs play a role in enhancing community capacity, delivering services, and providing development aid in rural areas, especially in developing countries (Desai, 2014;Gemmil & Bamidele-Izu, 2012). Moreover, NGOs also represent the community's voices for formulating and developing development policy and provide advocacy process for a country (Desai, 2014;Risley, 2015).…”

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The significance and impacts of a youth-led empowerment program and youth-led community development interventions in Myanmar

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<p>In Myanmar, youth are traditionally perceived as a less significant segment of the society. Hence, youth development issues and problems around youth have attracted little attention from community members. Youth empowerment is a human resource development tool and a process designed to help the development of young individuals, by enabling them to solve their own problems and contribute to the development of their community. This qualitative study examines youth empowerment initiatives of one youth-led organization and its alumni by employing Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and conducting semi-structured interviews. This study focuses on how a youth-led organization has empowered youth to become socially engaged for social transformation and get involved in the country’s development sector. Results show that empowerment is an ongoing process and reveal a new dimension of youth empowerment in the Myanmar context. This study found that the nature of youth-led development organizations for youth and social change movements differed. Youth-led empowerment actions offer learning opportunities and create spaces for young people to participate in community movements. Moreover, Socially Engaged Buddhism (SEB) is an alternative to the conventional empowerment approaches, which offers Buddhist principles for individual development of young people and stimulates youth to get involved in collective social change movements to tackle structural injustices. </p>

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Civil Society Organizations, Advocacy, and Policy Making in Latin American Democracies

Cited by 29 publications

References 77 publications

Federico M. Rossi, The Poor’s Struggle for Political Incorporation: The Piquetero Movement in Argentina

Federico M. Rossi, The Poor’s Struggle for Political Incorporation: The Piquetero Movement in Argentina

Introduction. A new field: comparative law and regulation

The significance and impacts of a youth-led empowerment program and youth-led community development interventions in Myanmar

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