|
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history
|
Buy Now
Demanding Development - The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India's Urban Slums (Paperback)
Loot Price: R955
Discovery Miles 9 550
|
|
|
Demanding Development - The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India's Urban Slums (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
India's urban slums exhibit dramatic variation in their access to
local public goods and services - paved roads, piped water, trash
removal, sewers, and streetlights. Why are some vulnerable
communities able to demand and secure development from the state
while others fail? Drawing on more than two years of fieldwork in
the north Indian cities of Bhopal and Jaipur, Demanding Development
accounts for the uneven success of India's slum residents in
securing local public goods and services. Auerbach's theory centers
on the political organization of slum settlements and the informal
slum leaders who spearhead resident efforts to make claims on the
state - in particular, those slum leaders who are party workers. He
finds striking variation in the extent to which networks of party
workers have spread across slum settlements. Demanding Development
shows how this variation in the density and partisan distribution
of party workers across settlements has powerful consequences for
the ability of residents to politically mobilize to improve local
conditions.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
