Grass-Roots Democracy in India and China: The Right To Participate

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Manoranjan Mohanty
SAGE, 2007 M01 12 - 498 pages
Annotation This volume closely studies the grass-roots political experiences in India and China from an interdisciplinary perspective. It examines the process of democratisation and highlights the growing demands for participation and the complex power structures interjecting them. In both India and China, economic reforms have generated new challenges for local institutions. The contributors to this volume accordingly discuss issues relating to institutional structures and the dynamics of local governance in a changing socio-economic environment. In addition to the political economy of rural areas, they also focus on the role of gender, ethnicity and religion in local political processes. In doing so, the volume: " outlines how institutional innovation has evolved in both countries; " brings out the extent to which the 73rd Amendment to the Constitution (in India) and the Organic Law (in China) have facilitated political participation; and " investigates how far the new democratic processes have reduced ethnic subordination, caste hierarchy and gender injustice at the village level. Comprising individual case studies as well as comparative perspectives, this pioneering volume raises new issues of institution-building and socio-economic change vis--vis the right to participate.
 

Contents

List of Tables 8 121
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The Identity
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Rural Political Participation in the Maoist and PostMao Periods
73
Institutional
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108
The Anatomy of
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Trends and Issues
209
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The Local Political Economy
229
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Gender Work and Power in an Andhra Village
319
Democracy Good Governance and Economic
339
LDN Elections Anhui Province 1999
345
The Working of Panchayati
363

Changes in Local Administration and their Impact
141
Basic Statistics of Hurqige Gaca
145
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Village Panchayats in Maharashtra
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The Environment the Family and Local Government
379
The Evolution and Function of the Kaxie System
391
Social Change and the Development of Democracy
407
Functions
431
This
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Reflections
459
Glossary
479
Index
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Manoranjan Mohanty is a renowned political scientist and China scholar whose writings have focused on theoretical and empirical dimensions of social movements, human rights, the development experience and the regional role of India and China. As Vice-President of the Council for Social Development (CSD) and Editor of CSD’s social science journal Social Change, published by SAGE, he brings a wealth of experience from both policy and practice perspectives. He is also Chairperson, Development Research Institute, Bhubaneswar, and Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), Delhi. Until 2004, he was Director, Developing Countries Research Centre, and Professor of Political Science at University of Delhi where he taught until his retirement. Former Chairperson and Director of ICS and former Editor of China Report, he has been on visiting assignments in several universities and research institutes in India and abroad including University of California, Berkeley; Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Moscow, Oxford, Beijing, Copenhagen, Lagos; University of California, Santa Barbara; and the New School, New York. Professor Mohanty has been a part of the founding and evolution of ICS, the Developing Countries Research Centre at University of Delhi and Gabeshana Chakra and Development Research Institute in Odisha. He has also been closely involved with the People’s Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi, and the Pakistan–India People’s Forum for Democracy since their inception. He was part of the founding process of the Boao Forum for Asia in China and REGGEN, the Third-World sustainable development network in Brazil. His other contributions include ‘China’s Reforms: The Wuxi Story’ in China after 1978: Craters in the Moon (2010), Ideology Matters: China from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping (2014), ‘Political Discourse on Public Sector Reforms in India and China’ in Public Sector Reforms in China (2014) and ‘India, China and the Emerging Process of Building a Just World’ in Building a Just World: Essays in Honour of Muchkund Dubey (2015). Contact Prof Manoranjan Mohanty at: University of Delhi and Council for Social Development, Delhi Email: mm@csdindia.org; mmohantydu@gmail.com

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