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Between People and the State: NGOs as Troubleshooters and Innovators

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This chapter deals with NGOs as agents of change. It presents two Indian NGOs which operate in the field where economic development, human rights, and conservation intersect. It aims to identify what has made these NGOs capable of exerting influence on policy change and judicial reform to secure livelihood rights and environmental rights for their beneficiaries.

A more detailed analysis of the cases discussed here can be found in my PhD thesis (Madsen 1996). I would like to thank Ravi Chellam, Pernille Gooch, Mr and Ms Jagawat, Avdesh and Praveen Kaushal, D.V.S. Khati, Ashish Kothari, Staffan Lindberg, Kate E. Madsen, Sanjeev Prakash, Sudhir Rao, Anil C. Shah and Vandana Shiva for critical comments, and SAREC for financing the research presented here.

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  1. Department of Sociology, University of Lund, Sweden

    Staffan Lindberg (Associate Professor of Sociology) (Associate Professor of Sociology)

  2. Department of Sociology and the Research Policy Institute, University of Lund, Sweden

    Árni Sverrisson (Assistant Professor of Sociology) (Assistant Professor of Sociology)

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Madsen, S.T. (1997). Between People and the State: NGOs as Troubleshooters and Innovators. In: Lindberg, S., Sverrisson, Á. (eds) Social Movements in Development. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25448-4_13

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