POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Onchocerciasis, Civil Society, Authoritarianism
20 Feb 2016
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Working with civil society to define and pursue public goods. Controlling ebola: ex: education, ex: controlling crime, makeshift clinics and training local people, especially survivors, education campaigns and community action needed- involve churches, traditional healers and other traditional institutions with presumed immunity in liberia and sierra leone. Mutual strengthening: aid to civil society organizations (material, non-material, extending the reach of state institutions (ex: treating river blindness) The substance and universality of rights: who participates (and who doesn"t, citizenship as cooptation: 3 models, 3 types of rights: civil, political and social. Ex: informal vs. formal sector workers: citizenship as consumption: A person"s access to rights depends on their economic. Ex: public education and healthcare vs. private alternatives resources: citizenship as agency citizenship rights. The active role played by multiple actors in defining. Wrapping up: a tool for understand north-south divergence. Not a question of west vs. other regions, but type and strength. Not state or civil society, but both.
