Promoting Popular Participation

Multi-sectoral Coalitions and Popular Movement Participation

The article focuses on varying protest intensities of social movement activists in an authoritarian political environment. Drawing on a sample of participants in El Salvador’s El movimiento popular, the paper examines how structural location in the resistance movement’s multi-sectoral organizational infrastructure shapes the level of participation. Those motivated by state repression and mainta...

The Role of Social Capital in Promoting Popular Participation and Optimal Urban Management (Case Study: Koy Neighborhood, Government Employees and Five Hundred Units of the City of Douganbadan)

Social capital is a form of traditional solidarity of society in which groups of people can pursue their individual interests by dedicating themselves to social projects. Participation is a process that mobilizes local resources, utilizes diverse social groups in decision making, locals engage in defining problems, collecting and learning information and implementing projects. The purpose of t...

[Dengue in Rio de Janeiro: rethinking popular participation in health].

This paper discusses popular participation in health from the point of view of an experience in dengue epidemic control in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the city of Rio de Janeiro. It refers specifically to a social movement called "Se Liga, Leopoldina", combining professionals (from health services and public schools) and members of popular organizations from the suburban neighborhoods ser...

Strategic urban development planning with emphasis on popular participation (Case study: Shahrreza worn texture) *

Promoting the participation of children and young people in care.

OBJECTIVE There are particular reasons why it is important for children and young people in care to have some say in the decisions that are made about their lives. The aim of this paper is to outline these and to review the developments and the research concerning the participation of children in care in processes and decisions that affect them. METHOD This paper reviews the research literatu...