Development, decentralization and democracy : exploring social capital and politicization in the Bengal Region

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    • Thörlind, Robert

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Development, decentralization and democracy : exploring social capital and politicization in the Bengal Region

(Report series / Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, No.42)

NIAS, 2000

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Description

Although West Bengal and Bangaldesh decentralized their governments about the same time, the change seems to have been more effective in West Bengal. This book studies the performance of both governments to see if a growth in social capital could explain the difference.

Table of Contents

  • A critical introduction to the Social Capital thesis
  • good government performance
  • Panchayati Raj - decentralisation and popular participation in India and West Bengal
  • towards decentralisation and popular participation in Bangladesh
  • comparing institutional policy performance in West Bengal and Bangladesh
  • civil society in rural West Bengal
  • civil society in rural Bangladesh
  • analysing the generation of social capital.

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