Democratic Governance in India
Title | Democratic Governance in India PDF eBook |
Author | Niraja Gopal Jayal |
Publisher | SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2001-12-14 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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This volume of original essays highlights an interesting phenomenon: a variety of social movements and new institutional experiments are now seeking to wrest the state s responsibility of securing development and alleviating poverty. The sphere of the market on the one hand, and the non-governmental sector on the other, are identified by the contributors as critical ingredients in the alternative conceptualizations of governance that have begun to inform the discourse on development.
Costs of Democracy
Title | Costs of Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Devesh Kapur |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 383 |
Release | 2018-06-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 019909313X |
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.
Development and Democracy in India
Title | Development and Democracy in India PDF eBook |
Author | Shalendra D. Sharma |
Publisher | Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781555878108 |
This study examines the relationship between democratic governance and economic development in post-independence India. The author addresses the paradox of India's political economy: why have five decades of democratically guided strategies failed to reconcile economic growth with redistribution.
Making Local Democracy Work in India
Title | Making Local Democracy Work in India PDF eBook |
Author | Harihar Bhattacharyya |
Publisher | Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9788179360071 |
Autonomy and Democratic Governance in Northeast India
Title | Autonomy and Democratic Governance in Northeast India PDF eBook |
Author | M. Amarjeet Singh |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2022-03-17 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1000556107 |
This volume studies the various forms of ethnic autonomy envisioned within and outside the purview of the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution. It explores the role of the British Indian administration and the Constituent Assembly of India in the introduction and inclusion of the schedule and the special provisions granted under it. Drawing on case studies from the states of Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, and Sikkim in Northeast India and Darjeeling in West Bengal, it examines whether the practice of granting autonomy has been able to fulfil the political aspirations of the ethnic communities and how far autonomy settles or eases conflict. It also discusses sub-state nationalism and if it can be accommodated within autonomy, and studies the views of the central government and state governments towards such autonomy. An important contribution towards understanding India’s federal structure, the volume will be indispensable to students and researchers of politics, democracy, Indian Constitution, law, self-governance, political theory and South Asian studies.
Democratic Politics and Governance in India
Title | Democratic Politics and Governance in India PDF eBook |
Author | M. M. Sankhder |
Publisher | Deep and Deep Publications |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Democracy |
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This Book Is An Attempt To Fill Up The Gap By Providing Missing Links Between The Past And Present In Indian Studies For Establishing India`S Identity In The Field Of Political Knowledge.
India Direly Needs Democracy and Democratic Governance
Title | India Direly Needs Democracy and Democratic Governance PDF eBook |
Author | Dr. TRIYUGI PRASAD |
Publisher | Notion Press |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 2023-02-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
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The context, the contents as well as the title of the book can be best appreciated in light of some of the glaring news and incidents of modern-day India. One; more than thirty members of the legislative assembly of a prominent state of India, all duly elected by the people, flew to the capital of a different far away state and stayed in a posh hotel there for more than a month in order to make up their mind about their allegiance to their leader. It is an open question how the huge cost incurred on this account has been met and how the time wasted in this exercise has been accounted for. Another was the case when the Rashtrapati Bhawan (i.e. the President’s House) of India and the Rajyapal Bhawan (Governor’s House) of a state acted in concert overnight, as if there was a national crisis to be urgently taken of, in order to install the state government in haste, which ultimately proved to be abortive. A third is the case where the education minister of a state was found to have collected a very large sum of money in bribe for the appointment of teachers in government schools in his state, mostly in currency notes stacked in a house. All these incidents and many more, or rather increasingly more in this genre, make one think what kind of governance India has even after more than seven decades of declaring itself to be a democratic republic after having suffered almost two centuries of colonialism and exploitative governance. It is particularly intriguing since India’s struggle for freedom was waged under the inspiring leadership of Mahatma Gandhi who always advocated for democracy as a way of life and governance for free India and autonomous village governance would be the core of democratic India. Instead, India adopted in its Constitution essentially colonial system of governance under the veneer of parliamentary democracy and thus fell into the delusion of having democracy. The book examines all these aspects in their historical perspective and concludes that India’s governance still suffers from the virus of colonialism, i.e. exploitativeness and only democracy and democratic governance can deliver India out of the present deplorable situation and bring in its rightful prosperity commensurate with its excellent resources – natural, human as well as cultural.