Grass-Roots Democracy in India and China

The Right To Participate

Rong Ma editor Manoranjan Mohanty editor Richard Baum editor George Mathew editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc

Published:11th Jan '07

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Both India and China have experienced economic changes and growing social consciousness which have generated new challenges for local institutions. This volume closely studies the resultant grass-roots political experiences in these countries from an interdisciplinary perspective. It examines the process of democratisation and highlights the growing demands for participation and the complex power structures interjecting them.

The contributors to this volume discuss issues relating to institutional structures and the dynamics of local governance in a changing socio-economic environment that panchayati raj in India and village committee system in China represent. In addition to the political economy of rural areas, they also focus on the role of gender, caste, class, ethnicity and religion in local political processes.

This volume is the product of a collaborative research effort by scholars from India, China and the US analysing the experience of grass-roots political processes in India and China in a comparative perspective in the context of theoretical debates relating to participatory democracy.

-- Social Change

This book is successful to a great extent in examining and evaluating the process of democratiation and highlighting the growing demands for participations and complex power structures.

-- Development Alternatives
This volume closely studies the resultant grass-roots political experiences in these countries from an interdisciplinary perspective. -- www.hindustantimes

ISBN: 9780761935155

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 660g

500 pages