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| Author | : Crispin Bates |
| Publisher | : Anthem Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2005-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1843317524 |
This book explores various aspects and processes of the twentieth-century Indian state, from the central, Union government down to grassroot-level in the provinces and villages.
| Author | : Devesh Kapur |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 435 |
| Release | : 2018-02-16 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0199091285 |
While a growing private sector and a vibrant civil society can help compensate for the shortcomings of India’s public sector, the state is—and will remain—indispensable in delivering basic governance. In Rethinking Public Institutions in India, distinguished political and economic thinkers critically assess a diverse array of India’s core federal institutions, from the Supreme Court and Parliament to the Election Commission and the civil services. Relying on interdisciplinary approaches and decades of practitioner experience, this volume interrogates the capacity of India’s public sector to navigate the far-reaching transformations the country is experiencing. An insightful introduction to the functioning of Indian democracy, it offers a roadmap for carrying out fundamental reforms that will be necessary for India to build a reinvigorated state for the twenty-first century.
| Author | : Crispin Bates |
| Publisher | : Anthem Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2005-09-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0857287214 |
This book explores various aspects and processes of the twentieth-century Indian state, from the central, Union government down to grassroot-level in the provinces and villages.
| Author | : Rajni Kothari |
| Publisher | : Orient Blackswan |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9788125028949 |
Rethinking Democracy is an insightful and reflective monograph on democracy in general and Indian democracy in particular. In this work, Rajni Kothari revisits the core arguments he has laid down in his various writings in the past four decades Politics in India, State Against Democracy, Communalism in India, etc. While revisiting his writings, Kothari reflects, interrogates and even contests some of his earlier formulations on democracy, state and civil society, developing a new paradigm on the basis of his intellectual experience and activist experience. Kothari makes a powerful critique of prevailing democratic theory and practice in a changing global as well as Indian contaxt and concludes that democracy has failed to achieve its objective of human emancipation and survives merely as a dream. However, this disillusionment with democracy does not deter him from searching for an alternative model of a decentralized, participatory and emancipatory democracy.
| Author | : Devesh Kapur |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2018-06-13 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 019909313X |
One of the most troubling critiques of contemporary democracy is the inability of representative governments to regulate the deluge of money in politics. If it is impossible to conceive of democracies without elections, it is equally impractical to imagine elections without money. Costs of Democracy is an exhaustive, ground-breaking study of money in Indian politics that opens readers’ eyes to the opaque and enigmatic ways in which money flows through the political veins of the world’s largest democracy. Through original, in-depth investigation—drawing from extensive fieldwork on political campaigns, pioneering surveys, and innovative data analysis—the contributors in this volume uncover the institutional and regulatory contexts governing the torrent of money in politics; the sources of political finance; the reasons for such large spending; and how money flows, influences, and interacts with different tiers of government. The book raises uncomfortable questions about whether the flood of money risks washing away electoral democracy itself.
| Author | : Ajay Gandhi |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2020-10 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1108486789 |
Using historical and ethnographic analyses, this book shows how Indian markets are embedded in society and politically contested.
| Author | : Milan Vaishnav |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 2017-01-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0300216203 |
The first thorough study of the co-existence of crime and democratic processes in Indian politics In India, the world's largest democracy, the symbiotic relationship between crime and politics raises complex questions. For instance, how can free and fair democratic processes exist alongside rampant criminality? Why do political parties recruit candidates with reputations for wrongdoing? Why are one-third of state and national legislators elected--and often re-elected--in spite of criminal charges pending against them? In this eye-opening study, political scientist Milan Vaishnav mines a rich array of sources, including fieldwork on political campaigns and interviews with candidates, party workers, and voters, large surveys, and an original database on politicians' backgrounds to offer the first comprehensive study of an issue that has implications for the study of democracy both within and beyond India's borders.
| Author | : Kanchan Chandra |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 2016-04-28 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 131659212X |
Dynastic politics, usually presumed to be the antithesis of democracy, is a routine aspect of politics in many modern democracies. This book introduces a new theoretical perspective on dynasticism in democracies, using original data on twenty-first-century Indian parliaments. It argues that the roots of dynastic politics lie at least in part in modern democratic institutions - states and parties - which give political families a leg-up in the electoral process. It also proposes a rethinking of the view that dynastic politics is a violation of democracy, showing that it can also reinforce some aspects of democracy while violating others. Finally, this book suggests that both reinforcement and violation are the products, not of some property intrinsic to political dynasties, but of the institutional environment from which those dynasties emerge.
| Author | : Devesh Kapur |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 508 |
| Release | : 2007-08-09 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
The essays in this volume present an analytical appraisal of public institutions in India. The purpose here is not just to give a history of these institutions but to ask what explains their performance and what might be learnt from their experience. It assesses the manner in which they assist, thwart, manipulate, and subvert each other. The aim is to provide a complex account of the modalities through which state power is exercised and policy enacted. This study contributes to debates on institutional change and reform that are currently underway in India by bringing more analytical rigour and enlarging the parameters of the debate. These debates are particularly important given that Indian economy and society have changed profoundly in the last decade and a half. Much of the discussion is on how state institutions like the civil service, the courts, the police, parliament, and regulatory institutions will need to be reconfigured to better adapt to changing circumstances.
| Author | : Sharma |
| Publisher | : Oxford India Paperbacks |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780198068297 |
Covering a long span, from the Vedic period to twelfth century AD, this volume explores key aspects of early Indian history political ideas and institutions; economic patterns and developments; social orders and ractices; and the transition from ancient to medieval.
