Whose Voice Counts? Diversity, Postcolonial Continuities and Participation in Plurinational Andean States

Globalization and Postcolonial States

Whose voice? Whose choice? Whose power?

Coercion in psychiatry stems from the historic inequality between the psychiatrist and the person who is designated as the "patient," even though he/she may not have chosen this role, and may not see him/herself as needing psychiatric attention. The psychiatrist has the power to define an individual as mentally ill, and then to confine and treat the person based on that definition. The user/sur...

Poverty and livelihoods: whose reality counts?

This paper explores how professionals’ universal, reductionist and standardized views of poverty differ from those of the poor themselves. Poverty line thinking concerned with income-poverty and employment thinking concerned with jobs, project Northern concerns on the South, where the realities of the poor are local, diverse, often complex and dynamic. Examples illustrate how poor people’s crit...

Implementation and aspiration gaps: whose view counts?

2068 www.thelancet.com Vol 388 October 29, 2016 The Lancet’s Maternal Health Series paints a sobering picture of the state of maternal health today. The Series focuses on the “mismatch between burden and coverage”, which “exposes a crucial gap in quality of care” and spotlights the millions of pregnant women and adolescents who never get access to services at all. But 30 years after the start o...

Whose Opinion Counts? Political Processes and the Implementation Problem∗

We augment the mechanism used in Nash implementation with a political process that collects the opinions of a subset of individuals with a fixed probability distribution. The outcome is a function of only the collected opinions. We show that the necessary – and sometimes sufficient – condition for implementation by a specific political process can be either weaker or stronger than Maskin monoto...