Development and Democracy in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Development and Democracy in India write by Shalendra D. Sharma. This book was released on 1999. Development and Democracy in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study examines the relationship between democratic governance and economic development in post-independence India. The author addresses the paradox of India's political economy: why have five decades of democratically guided strategies failed to reconcile economic growth with redistribution.
Democracy against Development
Democracy against Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy against Development write by Jeffrey Witsoe. This book was released on 2013-11-05. Democracy against Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India’s emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation’s recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and often violent, political movements. In Democracy against Development, Jeffrey Witsoe investigates this counter-narrative, uncovering an antagonistic relationship between recent democratic mobilization and development-oriented governance in India. Witsoe looks at the history of colonialism in India and its role in both shaping modern caste identities and linking locally powerful caste groups to state institutions, which has effectively created a postcolonial patronage state. He then looks at the rise of lower-caste politics in one of India’s poorest and most populous states, Bihar, showing how this increase in democratic participation has radically threatened the patronage state by systematically weakening its institutions and disrupting its development projects. By depicting democracy and development as they truly are in India—in tension—Witsoe reveals crucial new empirical and theoretical insights about the long-term trajectory of democratization in the larger postcolonial world.
Diaspora, Development, and Democracy
Diaspora, Development, and Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diaspora, Development, and Democracy write by Devesh Kapur. This book was released on 2013-12-01. Diaspora, Development, and Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate? The first book to examine the complex economic, social, and political effects of emigration on India, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy provides a conceptual framework for understanding the repercussions of international migration on migrants' home countries. Devesh Kapur finds that migration has influenced India far beyond a simplistic "brain drain"--migration's impact greatly depends on who leaves and why. The book offers new methods and empirical evidence for measuring these traits and shows how data about these characteristics link to specific outcomes. For instance, the positive selection of Indian migrants through education has strengthened India's democracy by creating a political space for previously excluded social groups. Because older Indian elites have an exit option, they are less likely to resist the loss of political power at home. Education and training abroad has played an important role in facilitating the flow of expertise to India, integrating the country into the world economy, positively shaping how India is perceived, and changing traditional conceptions of citizenship. The book highlights a paradox--while international migration is a cause and consequence of globalization, its effects on countries of origin depend largely on factors internal to those countries. A rich portrait of the Indian migrant community, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy explores the complex political and economic consequences of migration for the countries migrants leave behind.
Democracy, Development, and the Countryside
Democracy, Development, and the Countryside - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy, Development, and the Countryside write by Ashutosh Varshney. This book was released on 1998-09-18. Democracy, Development, and the Countryside available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Several scholars have written about how authoritarian or democratic political systems affect industrialization in the developing countries. There is no literature, however, on whether democracy makes a difference to the power and well-being of the countryside. Using India as a case where the longest-surviving democracy of the developing world exists, this book investigates how the countryside uses the political system to advance its interests. It is first argued that India's countryside has become quite powerful in the political system, exerting remarkable pressure on economic policy. The countryside is typically weak in the early stages of development, becoming powerful when the size of the rural sector defies this historical trend. But an important constraint on rural power stems from the inability of economic interests to overpower the abiding, ascriptive identities, and until an economic construction of politics completely overpowers identities and non-economic interests, farmers' power, though greater than ever before, will remain self-limited.
Democracy and Development in India
Democracy and Development in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy and Development in India write by Atul Kohli. This book was released on 2010-07-08. Democracy and Development in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essays in this volume are organized thematically in three sections-political change; political economy; and politics and development in select states. The introductory essay acts as an 'umbrella' to these essays and represents twenty-five years of scholarly research by distinguished political scientist Atul Kohli.
