Karnataka Government and Politics

Karnataka Government and Politics
Author: Harish Ramaswamy
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9788180693977

The twenty-eight papers in this set of three volumes provide deep insights into the understanding of the dynamics of karnataka Government and politics. Giving a brief account of the geography of Karnataka, they examine the process by which the modern state of Karnataka emerged.

Broadening and Deepening Democracy

Broadening and Deepening Democracy
Author: E. Raghavan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2009
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0415544548

This book studies the political transformation of Karnataka by focusing on three chief ministers who played an important role in making Karnataka more accommodative and democratic. It includes interviews and surveys which locate this work in social science literature and in comparative context alongside other Indian states.

Development in Karnataka

Development in Karnataka
Author: Gopal K. Kadekodi
Publisher: Academic Foundation
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9788171886197

Contributed articles presented at a conference.

Urban Governance in Karnataka and Bengaluru

Urban Governance in Karnataka and Bengaluru
Author: Kala Seetharam Sridhar
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-12-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 144385848X

This book deals with varied aspects of urban governance in the Indian state of Karnataka in general and its capital, Bengaluru, in particular. Given the growing significance of urbanisation for the economy, polity and society of Karnataka, and India as a whole, the volume’s contribution towards understanding various aspects of the phenomenon can hardly be overemphasised. This collection of articles, regarding basic urban services and governance, illuminates the diverse governance questions and policy issues that interest all those who are passionate about changing the urban landscape of Bengaluru, Karnataka, and India, for the better.

The State and Poverty in India

The State and Poverty in India
Author: Atul Kohli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1989-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521378765

In The State and Poverty in India the author argues cogently that well-organised, left-of-centre parties in government are the most effective in implementing reform.

Democracy and Discontent

Democracy and Discontent
Author: Atul Kohli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 442
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521396929

Long considered one of the great successes of the developing world, India has more recently experienced growing challenges to political order and stability. Institutional mechanisms for the resolution of conflict have broken down, the civil and police services have become highly politicized, and the state bureaucracy appears incapable of implementing an effective plan for economic development. In this book, Atul Kohli analyzes political change in India from the late 1960s to the late 1980s. Based on research conducted at the local, state and national level, the author analyzes the changing patterns of authority in and between the centre and periphery. He combines rich empirical investigation, extensive interviews and theoretical perspectives in developing a detailed explanation of the growing crisis of governance his research reveals. The book will be of interest to both specialists in Indian politics and to students of comparative politics more generally.

Making News in Global India

Making News in Global India
Author: Sahana Udupa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2015-06-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1316300730

In the decades following India's opening to foreign capital, the city of Bangalore emerged, quite unexpectedly, as the outsourcing hub for the global technology industry and the aspirational global city of liberalizing India. Through an ethnography of English and Kannada print news media in Bangalore, this ambitious and innovative new study reveals how the expanding private news culture played a critical role in shaping urban transformation in India, when the allegedly public profession of journalism became both an object and agent of global urbanization. Building on extensive fieldwork carried out with the Times of India group, the largest media house in India, between 2008 and 2012, Sahana Udupa argues that the class project of the 'global city' news discourse came into striking conflict with the cultural logics of regional language and caste practices. Advancing new theoretical concepts, Making News in Global India takes arguments in media scholarship beyond the dichotomy of public good and private accumulation.

Democratic Dynasties

Democratic Dynasties
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.