| Description |
1 online resource (162 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy |
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Routledge studies in governance and public policy.
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| Contents |
Cover; Democratic Governance and Social Entrepreneurship; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: social entrepreneurship, development, and democracy; PART I Agency, structure, and democratization; 1 Development and democratization: two sides, same story; 2 Capabilities, agency, and structure; PART II Social entrepreneurship, the state, and governance; 3 The intersection of agency and structure: microcredit in India as a political tool; 4 Thailand: nationalist projects, development, and governance |
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5 Development, social entrepreneurship, and deliberative democracyNotes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book explores the connection between strong democracy and neoliberal development schemes based on the concept of 'social entrepreneurship' in Thailand and Southern India. With an original approach, this book addresses the intersection between emerging approaches to development; namely microfinance, microenterprise, and social entrepreneurship, and the ability of societies to generate their own public goods without state assistance. Utilizing observation, fieldwork, and practice in Northern Thailand and Southern India, as well as secondary sources from the southern Asia reg |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Microfinance -- India -- Andhra Pradesh
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Political participation -- India -- Andhra Pradesh
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Social entrepreneurship -- India -- Andhra Pradesh
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy.
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Microfinance
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Political participation
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Social entrepreneurship
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India -- Andhra Pradesh
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135073145 |
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1135073147 |
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