Agency of the Governed in the Global South

Anke Draude is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on discursive shifts and conceptual innovations in the study of governance, aid, and development in areas of limited statehood.

• 1. Introduction: the agency of the governed in transfer and diffusion studies Anke Draude 2. Translation in motion: a concept’s journey towards norm diffusion studies Anke Draude 3. Linked in translation: international donors and local fieldworkers as translators of global norms Tobias Berger 4. Creating room for manoeuvre: domestic repertoires of action in international post-war interventions Sina Birkholz, Tilmann Scherf and Ursula C. Schroeder 5. Resistance to international democracy promotion in Morocco and Tunisia Vera van Hüllen 6. Norm appropriation through policy production: Rwanda’s gender policies Jenny Lorentzen 7. Women’s rights norms as content-in-motion and incomplete practice Susanne Zwingel 8. Unlocking the agency of the governed: contestation and norm dynamics Lisbeth Zimmermann, Nicole Deitelhoff and Max Lesch 9. Agency of the governed in global international relations: access to norm validation Antje Wiener