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Author : Harihar Bhattacharyya
Publisher : Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8179360075
Author : ANIL KUMAR. VADDIRAJU
Publisher : Routledge Chapman & Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367675900
This book examines the issues of urban governance and local democracy in South India. It is the first comprehensive volume that offers comparative frameworks on urban governance across all states in the region: Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The book focuses on governance in small district-level cities and raises crucial questions such as the nature of urban planning, major outstanding issues for urban local governance, conditions of civic amenities such as drinking water and sanitation and problems of social capital in making urban governance work in these states. It emphasizes on both efficient urban governance and effective local democracy to meet the challenges of fast-paced urbanization in these states while presenting policy lessons from their urbanization processes. Rich in empirical data, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of political studies, public administration, governance, public policy, development studies and urban studies, as well as practitioners and non-governmental organizations.
Author : United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821377353
'Decentralization and Local Democracy in the World' constitutes a global reference on decentralization by presenting the contemporary situation of local governments in all regions of the world. The report analyzes local authorities in each continent under three main themes: the evolution of territorial structures; responsibilities and power, management and finances; and local democracy. An additional chapter is dedicated to the governance of large metropolises, where rapid growth presents major challenges, in particular in the fast-developing countries of the South. This report also offers a comparative overview of the different realities concerning the state of decentralization, and how the basic indispensable mechansims for local democracy do, or do not exist in come countries. Relationships between the state and local authorities are evolving toward innovative forms of cooperation. In this context, the role of local authorities in the development of global policies is increasingly recognized. The first Global Observatory on Local Democracy and Decentralization (GOLD) Report is one of the main products of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG). The GOLD Report is the first of what will be a triennial publication. UCLG represents and defends the interests of local governments on the world stage, regardless of the size of the communities they serve. Headquartered in Barcelona, the organization's stated mission is: To be the united voice and world advocate of democratic local self-government, promoting its values, objectives and interests, through cooperation between local governments, and within the wider international community.
Author : Vijayendra Rao,Paromita Sanyal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107019744
Studies citizens' deliberation on governance and development in Indian democracy, and the influence of state policy and literacy, analysing three hundred village assemblies. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author : Brechtje Kemp,Mélida Jiménez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 9187729083
Author : Rani D. Mullen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136597992
Over the past three decades, decentralization has been seen as the means for allowing local governments to become more accountable, and for encouraging the deepening of democracy and the building of village communities. By drawing on original village-level case studies of six villages in three different Indian states, this book presents a systematic analysis of the impact of decentralization on the delivery of social services at the local level within India. Supplementing national and state-level data and analyzing the different historical legacies in each state, the book argues that decentralization is not simply a function of the structure of the decentralization program or of the relationship between higher-tiered and local government. Rather, the possibility of decentralization affecting social outcomes depends on several interacting factors, including the distribution of power among local elites, the dynamics of political competition, and the level of civil society mobilization. By examining constitutionally-mandated political decentralization across India, this book identifies the circumstances under which local government structures can lead to improved social services and societal wellbeing, as well as presenting a substantial contribution to studies on South Asian Politics and Local Government.
Author : Atul Kohli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521805309
Leading scholars consider how democracy has taken root in India despite poverty, illiteracy and ethnic diversity.
Author : Harihar Bhattacharyya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134376421
This book analyzes the successes and failures of various federal measures adopted in India, Pakistan and Malaysia for the political accommodation of diversity. Bhattacharyya then assesses their comparative significance for other countries in Asia. In particular, he examines growing tensions between nation and state-building in ethnically plural societies; modes of federation-building in Asia; persistent ethno-nationalist tensions in federations, and the relationship between federalism and democracy; and federalism and decentralization. Since ethno-nationalist conflict remains unresolved in most countries of Asia, this book should of interest to those seeking long-term solutions of problems of order and stability in ethnically diverse countries in Asia.
Author : Anastasia Piliavsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107056084
Western policymakers, political activists and academics alike see patronage as the chief enemy of open, democratic societies. Patronage, for them, is a corrupting force, a hallmark of failed and failing states, and the obverse of everything that good, modern governance ought to be. South Asia poses a frontal challenge for this consensus. Here the world's most populous, pluralist and animated democracy is also a hotbed of corruption with persistently startling levels of inequality. Patronage as Politics in South Asia confronts this paradox with calm erudition: sixteen essays by anthropologists, historians and political scientists show, from a wide range of cultural and historical angles, that in South Asia patronage is no feudal residue or retrograde political pressure, but a political form vital in its own right. This volume suggests that patronage is no foe to South Asia's burgeoning democratic cultures, but may in fact be their main driving force.
Author : Dr. Akhilesh Pal
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365950933
Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464807749
Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces—citizen engagement and transparency—that hold the key to solving government failures by shaping how political markets function. Citizens are not only queueing at voting booths, but are also taking to the streets and using diverse media to pressure, sanction and select the leaders who wield power within government, including by entering as contenders for leadership. This political engagement can function in highly nuanced ways within the same formal institutional context and across the political spectrum, from autocracies to democracies. Unhealthy political engagement, when leaders are selected and sanctioned on the basis of their provision of private benefits rather than public goods, gives rise to government failures. The solutions to these failures lie in fostering healthy political engagement within any institutional context, and not in circumventing or suppressing it. Transparency, which is citizen access to publicly available information about the actions of those in government, and the consequences of these actions, can play a crucial role by nourishing political engagement.
Author : Lawrence Saez,Gurharpal Singh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136632624
Following India’s general election in May 2009, this book undertakes a critical evaluation of the performance of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). It presents a thorough analysis of the UPA coalition government, and by providing an understanding of the new innovations in the UPA’s policies, the book goes on to evaluate the effectiveness of these policies against their aims and objectives. This book suggests that there is an analytical framework for assessing the political consequences of the policies and the UPA’s success, both at the national and state levels, with particular reference to new policies in governance, secularism and security. These three areas constitute important fault lines between the main national political parties in India, and provide an interesting point of departure to explore the new emerging trends, as well as the strong underlying continuities between the UPA administration and its predecessors. The book offers new insights into the structure of Indian politics, and is a useful contribution to studies in South Asian Politics, Governance and Political Parties.
Author : Siegfried O. Wolf,Jivanta Schöttli,Dominik Frommherz,Kai Fürstenberg,Marian Gallenkamp,Lion König,Markus Pauli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319090870
The book introduces central themes that have preoccupied the field of South Asian politics over the last few decades and identifies new, emerging areas of research. Presenting both general political theory and context-specific case studies, the collection draws attention to the methodological challenges of working on an area-specific theme and the importance of generating generalizable insights linked to theory. Hence it will be of interest for political scientists working on South Asian politics as well as on other non-Western societies. The collection represents an unusually broad survey of scholarship emerging from a range of leading academic centres in the field.
Author : Devesh Kapur,Milan Vaishnav
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199093137
One of the most troubling critiques of contemporary democracy is the inability of representative governments to regulate the deluge of money in politics. If it is impossible to conceive of democracies without elections, it is equally impractical to imagine elections without money. Costs of Democracy is an exhaustive, ground-breaking study of money in Indian politics that opens readers’ eyes to the opaque and enigmatic ways in which money flows through the political veins of the world’s largest democracy. Through original, in-depth investigation—drawing from extensive fieldwork on political campaigns, pioneering surveys, and innovative data analysis—the contributors in this volume uncover the institutional and regulatory contexts governing the torrent of money in politics; the sources of political finance; the reasons for such large spending; and how money flows, influences, and interacts with different tiers of government. The book raises uncomfortable questions about whether the flood of money risks washing away electoral democracy itself.
Author : Subhabrata Dutta
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Decentralization in government
ISBN : 8183242731
Study conducted in the Bīrbhūm District of West Bengal, India.