Citizen action and national policy reform : making change happen / edited by John Gaventa and Rosemary McGee.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

How does citizen activism win changes in national policy? Which factors help to make myriad efforts by diverse actors add up to reform? What is needed to overcome setbacks, and to consolidate the smaller victories?

Redistributing land in the Philippines: Social movements and State reformers / Saturnino M. Borras Jr. and Jennifer C. Franco -- Gaining Comprehensive AIDS Treatment in South Africa: The Extraordinary 'Ordinary': / Steven Friedman -- Reducing Maternal Mortality in Mexico: Building Vertical Alliances for Change / Michael D. Layton, Beatriz Campillo Carrete, Ireri Ablanedo Terrazas, Ana María Sánchez Rodríguez -- Protecting the Child in Chile: Civil Society and the State / Claudio Fuentes -- Winning the Right to Information in India: Is Knowledge Power? / Amita Baviskar -- Reforming Urban Policy in Brazil: Participation and the Right to the City / Leonardo Avritzer -- Winning Women's Rights in Morocco: Cultural Adaptations and Islamic family law / Alexandra Pittman and Rabéa Naciri -- Changing Laws to Secure Women's Rights in Turkey: The Campaign for the Reform of the Penal Code / Pinar Ilkkaracan.