| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 187 pages) : illustrations |
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Cover; Citizen Initiatives and Democratic Engagement; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Campaigns for Citizen Governance: A Conceptual Overview; 2. Vignettes from the Field: Lessons on Democratic Engagements; 3. The 73rd Amendment Act: New Alignments, New Animosities; 4. The Pre-Election Voters' Awareness Campaigns: An Analysis; 5. The Pre-Election Voters' Awareness Campaigns and the State Election Commissions: Building Common Ground; 6. Beyond Elections: Sustaining the Democratic Impulse |
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7. Deepening Democracy: Discources and Practices8. Conclusions and Reflections for the Future; Appendix I; Bibliography; Note on the Author; Index |
| Summary |
This book describes and analyses a series of citizen-led campaigns for strengthening institutions of local self-governance in India. It argues that such civil society campaigns themselves can be made a part of governance at the local level and suggests ways in which democratic deliberation and dialogic practices can actually take place in the field |
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As the campaigns under study moved from district to district, mostly across the vast expanse of rural India, through its street plays, posters, pamphlets, candidatevoter dialogues, rehearsals of voting procedures, setting up of information booths and participatory workshops for newly-elected representatives, a new dialogical experiment was being born and shaped. The book uses a series of field notes from campaign animators and personal interviews of some who have participated in or been affected by the citizen-led campaigns to construct the campaign story. It locates this within the large theoretical canvas of deepening democracy which is a vibrant contemporary global discourse that is assuming significance in the wake of citizen apathy across the world. --Book Jacket |
| Notes |
"Copyright: Society for Participatory Research in Asia"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-179) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Democratization -- India -- Citizen participation
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Local government -- India -- Citizen participation
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Civil society -- India -- Citizen participation
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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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Local government -- Citizen participation
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Governance
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Politisches Handeln
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Zivilgesellschaft
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India
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Indien
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Society for Participatory Research in Asia (New Delhi, India)
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| ISBN |
9781136196720 |
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1136196722 |
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9781136196737 |
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1136196730 |
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