Decentralization : institutions and politics in rural India

著者

• Singh, Satyajit
• Sharma, Pradeep K.

書誌事項

Decentralization : institutions and politics in rural India

edited by Satyajit Singh and Pradeep K. Sharma

Oxford University Press, 2007

注記

Summary: Contributed articles

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This comprehensive volume looks at local governments in rural India as an opportunity to broaden the democratic structure and space for popular participation in local governance. It reviews select state models of decentralization in the country and assesses the form of democratic development possible through the institution of local governments. The work represents an emerging genre of literature on decentralization that is not judgmental on the various approaches to decentralization. It neither takes a pessimistic view of the world of decentralization - marred by caste and gender disparities, clientelism, rent-seeking and nepotism - nor romanticizes it. The essays grapple with the institutional design of decentralization and show how this could influence the social structure and make decentralization a pragmatic philosophy of development rather than a mere rhetoric. By moving beyond the normative notions of decentralization the collection sensitizes us to the politics of decentralization.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB09710061
• ISBN:
  • 9780195687729
• LCCN: 2007340813
• 出版国コード: ii
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New Delhi ; New York
• ページ数/冊数: xviii, 441 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : JS7011
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Local government -- India
  • LCSH : Decentralization in government -- India
  • LCSH : India -- Rural conditions