Grass-Roots Democracy in India and China: The Right To ParticipateManoranjan 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 | 10 |
The Identity | 53 |
Rural Political Participation in the Maoist and PostMao Periods | 73 |
Institutional | 93 |
1 | 108 |
The Anatomy of | 123 |
1 | 127 |
4 | 135 |
Trends and Issues | 209 |
1 | 212 |
The Local Political Economy | 229 |
1 | 237 |
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 |
3 | 154 |
Village Panchayats in Maharashtra | 161 |
1 | 164 |
7 | 170 |
15 | 176 |
1 | 183 |
2 | 201 |
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