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1 online resource (498 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Local government system in India and China : learning from each other / George Mathew -- Dependency versus autonomy : the identity crisis of India's panchayats / D. Bandyopadhyay, Saila K Ghosh and Buddhadeb Ghosh -- Rural political participation in the Maoist and post-Mao periods / Xiaohong Zhou -- Selecting within the rules : institutional innovation in China's governance / Tony Saich and Xuedong Yang -- 'Civil society' revisited : the anatomy of a rural NGO in Qinghai / Richard Baum and Xin Zhang -- Changes in local administration and their impact on community life in the grasslands of inner Mongolia / Rong Ma -- Village panchayats in Maharashtra / Rajendra Vora -- Kerala's people's plan campaign 1996-2001 : a critical assessment / T M. Thomas Isaac -- Panchayati raj system in Karnataka : trends and issues / B.S. Bhargava and K. Subha -- Imperfect substitutes : the local political economy of informal finance and microfinance in rural China and India / Kellee S. Tsai -- Stratification and institutional exclusion in China and India : administrative means versus social barriers / Fei-Ling Wang -- Women and local power in India and China : revisiting the ghosts of Manu and Confucius / Bidyut Mohanty -- Gender, work and power in an Andhra village / M. Vanamala -- Democracy, good governance and economic development in rural China / David Zweig and Chung Siu Fung -- Grass-roots democracy : the working of panchayati raj institutions in Andhra Pradesh / G. Haragopal and G. Sudarshanam -- The environment, the family and local government among the Tajik people / Shengmin Yang -- The evolution and function of the kaxie system of the Lahu people in south-west China / Shaoying He -- Social change and the development of democracy in local governance in Tibet / Tanzen Lhundup -- The party, the village committee and the monastery : functions and interactions of three institutions at the grass roots. / Changjiang Yu -- Reconceptualising local democracy : reflections on democracy, power and resistance in the Indian and Chinese countryside / Manoranjan Mohanty and Mark Selden |
| Summary |
In both India and China, economic reforms have generated challenges for local institutions. This book studies the political experiences in India and China from an interdisciplinary perspective. It examines the process of democratisation, highlighting the demands for participation and the power structures interjecting them |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Political participation -- India
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Political participation -- China
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Democratization -- India
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Democratization -- China
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Comparative government.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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Comparative government
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Democratization
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Political participation
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Politieke participatie.
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Democratisering.
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89.57 political participation.
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Politische Beteiligung
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Demokratisierung
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Political participation -- India.
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Political participation -- China.
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Democratization -- India.
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Democratization -- China.
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Comparative government.
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China
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India
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India.
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China.
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China
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Indien
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mohanty, Manoranjan, 1942-
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| LC no. |
2006031047 |
| ISBN |
9788132101130 |
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8132101138 |
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9788132112488 |
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8132112482 |
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0761935150 |
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9780761935155 |
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8178296675 |
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9788178296678 |
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