countries help maintain the state’s control through limited participation, i.e. another form of infrastructural state power … state’s infrastructural and discursive power. Most associations interviewed by us in the three countries accept or do not … openly reject the state’s and/or the state ruling party’s various forms of interference in internal decision‐making processes …

higher popular participation and increased efficiency in public service delivery. This paper is a qualitative assessment of … the reform, putting improvements in participation and efficiency at risk and ultimately jeopardising the intended impact … on poverty. -- decentralisation ; Uganda ; poverty reduction ; participation ; efficiency …

Unconventional participation is by no means regime-threatening per se, not even in an au-thoritarian regime like China … unconventional participation and by localizing the responsibility for solving conflicts. The current leadership in Beijing has chosen … ; unconventional participation ; legitimacy ; protest events …

In Bolivia, rights to increased political participation and the recognition of indigenous political systems are …