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This book, first published in 1992, examines the attitudes of local
elites - the hinge between Indian state and rural society - towards
protest and participation in development, illuminating arguments
about the nature of the state as well as the development process.
It looks at the role of local elites in India both as the
representatives of the state and of the rest of rural society, and
explains their importance in the country's development. The book
deals with the elites' contribution to the credibility of the state
and examines the strategies through which they manipulate the
allocation of resources and influence the pace and direction of
social change. It contrasts the rural elites in two areas, one more
economically advanced than the other. The elites in the first area
were shown to be capable of combining institutional participation
with radical protest, whilst in the other they tended to rely on
state channels to achieve reform. The author concludes that despite
the different settings, both groups were informed, active and
responsive to political conditions. This contrasts with the
conventional view that local elites of the dominant castes oppress
the lower ones by obstructing reforms, for reasons of
self-interest.
(1) This is a comprehensive book on India's electoral democracy and
political system. (2) It contains an in-depth analysis of the
crucial 2019 Parliamentary elections in India, with contributions
from scholars such as Subrata Mitra, Jivanta Schoettli, Rekha
Saxena, Hilal Ahmed, and Arjan H. Schakel. (3) This book will be of
interest to departments of South Asian Politics and political and
election studies. It will also interest professionals and those in
politics, public policy and governance, civil society
organisations, media and journalists.
(1) This is a comprehensive book on India's electoral democracy and
political system. (2) It contains an in-depth analysis of the
crucial 2019 Parliamentary elections in India, with contributions
from scholars such as Subrata Mitra, Jivanta Schoettli, Rekha
Saxena, Hilal Ahmed, and Arjan H. Schakel. (3) This book will be of
interest to departments of South Asian Politics and political and
election studies. It will also interest professionals and those in
politics, public policy and governance, civil society
organisations, media and journalists.
This book, first published in 1992, examines the attitudes of local
elites - the hinge between Indian state and rural society - towards
protest and participation in development, illuminating arguments
about the nature of the state as well as the development process.
It looks at the role of local elites in India both as the
representatives of the state and of the rest of rural society, and
explains their importance in the country's development. The book
deals with the elites' contribution to the credibility of the state
and examines the strategies through which they manipulate the
allocation of resources and influence the pace and direction of
social change. It contrasts the rural elites in two areas, one more
economically advanced than the other. The elites in the first area
were shown to be capable of combining institutional participation
with radical protest, whilst in the other they tended to rely on
state channels to achieve reform. The author concludes that despite
the different settings, both groups were informed, active and
responsive to political conditions. This contrasts with the
conventional view that local elites of the dominant castes oppress
the lower ones by obstructing reforms, for reasons of
self-interest.
India no longer gets an easy ride as the world's largest democracy.
Spectacular terrorist attacks on its Parliament and places of
worship, communal riots of unprecedented ferocity, lingering
separatist insurgency and violent caste conflict in impoverished
regions have combined to cause a closer appraisal of India's
capacity to sustain the rule of law. This book shows how governance
is high when people follow the rules of transaction, derived from
binding custom, legislation, administrative practices and the
constitution. The key question that underpins this analysis is why
do some people, sometimes, follow rules and not others? This study
responds to this central question by looking at analytical
narratives of political order in six Indian regional States,
surveys of social and political attitudes and extended interviews
with political leaders, administrators and police officers. It
shows how, by drawing on the logic of human ingenuity, driven by
self interest rather than mechanical adherence to tradition and
ideology, these regional elites can design institutions and promote
security, welfare and identity which enhance governance.
India no longer gets an easy ride as the world's largest democracy.
Spectacular terrorist attacks on India's Parliament and places of
worship, communal riots of unprecedented ferocity, lingering
separatist insurgency and violent caste conflict in impoverished
regions have combined to cause a closer appraisal of India's
capacity to sustain the rule of law.
This book examines how India has been able to sustain democratic
governance while undergoing substantial social, economic and
political changes through a neo-institutional rational choice model
of governance, bounded by local culture and context. The author
applies the central logic of bounded rationality to fresh data,
derived through quantitative and qualitative methods from a
geographically diverse, multi-ethnic, post-colonial state. It sheds
light on governance in India and generates findings relevant to
cross-national studies of governance. By drawing on the logic of
human ingenuity, driven by self-interest rather than mechanical
adherence to tradition, solicitude to abide by rules and innovating
new procedures when it suits them, the book shows how elites can
enhance governance through appropriate policies, institutions and
processes.
This book will be invaluable to researchers and students on South
Asia and will be of significant interest to those studying
governance and the rational actor model.
Thanks to its emerging markets, nuclearization and the internet
revolution, South Asia is increasingly at the forefront of current
affairs. This invaluable reference source seeks to make the region
accessible to business travelers as well as to the general reader.
The range of subjects to be covered includes major political
processes and events of South Asia (elections and electoral
politics, political slang, political parties, diplomacy and
territorial divisions), domestic and foreign policy, key
personalities, political and economic institutions, sub-national
groupings and units (regions, cities, provinces and rural
entities), ethnicity and identity, and legal systems (laws and
court cases).
Key features:
*Terms, which are frequently misunderstood in the political and
economic processes of South Asia, are explained clearly and
succinctly
*More than 1,000 entries, covering the key debates, issues,
concepts and institutions.
Entries include:
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Caste System
Corruption
dalits
Electoral System
Federalism
Hindu-Muslim relation
India-US Relation
Kashmir
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
Nuclearization
Privatization
Reserve Bank of India
Sikh
Untouchability
Urbanization
Vajpayee, Atal Behari
Countries covered in this volume include:
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
The World of Political Science - New volumes The book traces the
disciplinary development of political sociology and the
transdisciplinary research into the overlapping issues involving
politics and society. The contributions cover overviews of the
history, methodological and theoretical development of this
academic discipline. Successes as well as failures in past,
unexplored areas and salient issues in ongoing research are also
highlighted. From the Contents: Subrata K. Mitra and Malte Pehl,
Taking Stock of Political Sociology Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Political
Culture at a Crossroads? Kay Lawson and Mildred Schwartz, Parties,
Interest Groups and Social Movements: Shall Change be Mid - wife to
Truth? Eva Etzioni-Halevy, Socio-Political Inequalities: Elites,
Classes and Democracy Prakash Sarangi, Contemporary Approaches to
the Study of the State Jan van Deth, Political Sociology: Old
Concerns and New Directions
The book addresses the very topical subject of citizen making. By
delving into a range of sources - among them survey questions,
historical documents, political theory, architectural design, and
public policy - the book provides a unique analysis of when and why
citizenship has taken root in India. Each chapter highlights the
constant innovation of citizenship that has occurred in India's
legal, political, social, economic and aesthetic arrangements as
well as providing the basis for comparative analysis across South
Asian cases and the European Union.
This book presents the results of an international comparative
study on the causes of rule deviation in business and medical
organizations. Based on document and interview analyses as well as
experiments, the discrepancy between (state) regulations and
organizational practice is elaborated and discussed in an
interdisciplinary perspective. On the basis of the distinction
between organizational and individual deviance, it could be shown
across national boundaries that the unwritten rules of the
organization make a decisive contribution in explaining
organizational wrongdoing, as well as their containment.
Implications for effective prevention derived from this are also
pointed out.
Institutions are norms that undergird organizations and are
reflected in laws and practices. Over time, institutions take root
and persist as they are path dependent and thus change resistant.
Therefore, it is puzzling when institutions change. One such puzzle
has been the enactment of the Right to Information (RTI) Act in
India in 2005, which brought about institutional change by
transforming the 'information regime'. Why did the government upend
the norm of secrecy, which had historically been entrenched within
the Indian State? This book uses archival material, internal
government documents, and interviews to understand the why and how
of institutional change. It demonstrates that the institutional
change resulted from 'ideas' emerging gradually and incrementally,
leading to a 'tipping point'. About the IDSA Series: This series
interrogates the interplay between globalization, the state, and
social forces in the making and un-making of institutions in South
Asia. Why do institutions persist and change? Do we need to
transcend materialism and dwell in ideas and culture as well to
understand why institutions perform and fail? The first book in the
Institutions and Development in South Asia series, this volume
studies the historical institutionalism in the information regime
in India by presenting an alternative narrative about the evolution
of the RTI Act.
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