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Grass-roots democracy in India and China: the right to participate/ edited by Manoranjan Mohanty, RIchard Baum, Rong Ma and George Mathew

Contributor(s): Mohanty, Manoranjan, ed | Baum, Richard, ed | Ma, Rong, ed | Mathew, George, edMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2007Description: 498 pISBN: 9780761935155; 0761935150DDC classification: 327.54051

Contents:

Introduction: Local Governance, Local Democracy and the Right to Participate /Manoranjan Mohanty PART I: INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE AND LOCAL PARTICIPATION Local Government System in India and China: Learning from Each Other /George Mathew Dependency versus Autonomy: The Identity Crisis of India's Panchayats /D. Bandyopadhyay, Saila K Ghosh and Buddhadeb Ghosh Rural Political Participation in the Maoist and Post-Mao Periods /Xiaohong Zhou Selecting Within the Rules: Institutional Innovation in China's Governance /Tony Saich and Xuedong Yang 'Civil Society' Revisited: The Anatomy of a Rural NGO in Qinghai /Richard Baum and Xin Zhang Changes in Local Administration and their Impact on Community Life in the Grasslands of Inner Mongolia Village Panchayats in Maharashtra /Rajendra Vora Kerala's People's Plan Campaign 1996-2001: A Critical Assessment /T. M. Thomas Isaac Panchayati Raj System in Karnataka: Trends and Issues /B.S. Bhargava and K. Subha PART II: LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND THE EMERGING SOCIO-ECONOMIC ISSUES Imperfect Substitutes: The Local Political Economy of Informal Finance and Microfinance in Rural China and India /Kellee S. Tsai Stratification and Institutional Exclusion in China and India: Administrative Means versus Social Barriers /Fei-Ling Wang Women and Local Power in India and China/ Bidyut Mohanty Gender, Work and Power in an Andhra Village /M. Vanamala Democracy, Good Governance and Economic Development in Rural China /David Zweig and Chung Siu Fung Grass-roots Democracy: The Working of Panchayati Raj Institutions in Andhra Pradesh /G.Haragopal and G. Sudarshanam The Environment, the Family and Local Government among the Tajik People /Shengmin Yang The Evolution and Function of the Kaxie System of the Lahu People in South-west China /Shaoying He Social Change and the Development of Democracy in Local Governance in Tibet /Tanzen Lhundup The Party, the Village Committee and the Monastery: Functions and Interactions of Three Institutions at the Grass Roots. /Changjiang Yu PART III: COMPARATIVE REFLECTIONS Reconceptualising Local Democracy: Reflections on Democracy, Power and Resistance in the Indian and Chinese Countryside /Manoranjan Mohanty and Mark Selden

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	327.54051 MOH/G (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P00836

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Introduction: Local Governance, Local Democracy and the Right to Participate /Manoranjan Mohanty

PART I: INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE AND LOCAL PARTICIPATION
Local Government System in India and China: Learning from Each Other /George Mathew
Dependency versus Autonomy: The Identity Crisis of India's Panchayats /D. Bandyopadhyay, Saila K Ghosh and Buddhadeb Ghosh
Rural Political Participation in the Maoist and Post-Mao Periods /Xiaohong Zhou
Selecting Within the Rules: Institutional Innovation in China's Governance /Tony Saich and Xuedong Yang
'Civil Society' Revisited: The Anatomy of a Rural NGO in Qinghai /Richard Baum and Xin Zhang
Changes in Local Administration and their Impact on Community Life in the Grasslands of Inner Mongolia Village Panchayats in Maharashtra /Rajendra Vora
Kerala's People's Plan Campaign 1996-2001: A Critical Assessment /T. M. Thomas Isaac
Panchayati Raj System in Karnataka: Trends and Issues /B.S. Bhargava and K. Subha

PART II: LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND THE EMERGING SOCIO-ECONOMIC ISSUES
Imperfect Substitutes: The Local Political Economy of Informal Finance and Microfinance in Rural China and India /Kellee S. Tsai
Stratification and Institutional Exclusion in China and India: Administrative Means versus Social Barriers /Fei-Ling Wang
Women and Local Power in India and China/ Bidyut Mohanty
Gender, Work and Power in an Andhra Village /M. Vanamala
Democracy, Good Governance and Economic Development in Rural China /David Zweig and Chung Siu Fung
Grass-roots Democracy: The Working of Panchayati Raj Institutions in Andhra Pradesh /G.Haragopal and G. Sudarshanam
The Environment, the Family and Local Government among the Tajik People /Shengmin Yang
The Evolution and Function of the Kaxie System of the Lahu People in South-west China /Shaoying He
Social Change and the Development of Democracy in Local Governance in Tibet /Tanzen Lhundup
The Party, the Village Committee and the Monastery: Functions and Interactions of Three Institutions at the Grass Roots. /Changjiang Yu

PART III: COMPARATIVE REFLECTIONS
Reconceptualising Local Democracy: Reflections on Democracy, Power and Resistance in the Indian and Chinese Countryside /Manoranjan Mohanty and Mark Selden

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