dc.contributor.author	Roberta Rice
dc.date.accessioned	2024-09-17T22:28:03Z
dc.date.available	2024-09-17T22:28:03Z
dc.date.issued	2024-09-15
dc.description.abstract	Across North and South America, Indigenous people play a dual political role, building self-governing structures in their own nations and participating in the elections of settler states. Doing Democracy Differently asks how states are responding to demands for Indigenous representation and autonomy and in what ways the ongoing project of decolonization may unsettle the practice of democracy. Based on the structured, focused comparison of four success stories across Northern Canada, Bolivia, and Ecuador, this book provides real-world examples of how Indigenous autonomy and self-determination may be successfully advanced using existing democratic mechanisms. Drawing on thorough original research to identify factors that create distinctive patterns within Indigenous-state relations, it argues that the capacity for democratic innovation lies within the realm of civil society while the possibility for uptake of such innovation is found within the state and its willingness to work with Indigenous and popular actors. Operating at the intersection of Indigenous and Comparative Politics, Doing Democracy Differently takes seriously the role of institutions and the land on which they are built in the creation of democratic transformations in the Americas. This book advances Indigenous rights to autonomy and self-government and speaks to some of the thorniest issues in democratic governance.
dc.identifier.isbn	9781773855653
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1880/119754
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	University of Calgary Press	en
dc.publisher.url	http://press.ucalgary.ca/	en
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dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/
dc.subject	Political Science
dc.subject	Politics
dc.subject	Government
dc.subject	Democracy
dc.subject	Indigenous Governance
dc.subject	Indigenous Studies
dc.title	Doing Democracy Differently: Indigenous Rights and Representation in Canada and Latin America
dc.type	book	en

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