Grass-Roots Democracy in India and China: The Right To ParticipateManoranjan Mohanty Annotation This volume closely studies the grass-roots political experiences in India and China from an interdisciplinary perspective. It examines the process of democratisation and highlights the growing demands for participation and the complex power structures interjecting them. In both India and China, economic reforms have generated new challenges for local institutions. The contributors to this volume accordingly discuss issues relating to institutional structures and the dynamics of local governance in a changing socio-economic environment. In addition to the political economy of rural areas, they also focus on the role of gender, ethnicity and religion in local political processes. In doing so, the volume: " outlines how institutional innovation has evolved in both countries; " brings out the extent to which the 73rd Amendment to the Constitution (in India) and the Organic Law (in China) have facilitated political participation; and " investigates how far the new democratic processes have reduced ethnic subordination, caste hierarchy and gender injustice at the village level. Comprising individual case studies as well as comparative perspectives, this pioneering volume raises new issues of institution-building and socio-economic change vis--vis the right to participate. |
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... Communist Party organisation here , following the general situation in China , has a branch at the village level — the smallest and lowest unit of the party organisation . Some members of this branch hold the leading posts of the ...
... Communist Party organisation here , following the general situation in China , has a branch at the village level — the smallest and lowest unit of the party organisation . Some members of this branch hold the leading posts of the ...
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... Party as a concrete organisation or a group of people only when the Communist Party members specially announce that some concrete project is being pursued in the Communist Party branch's name . But these kinds of cases are decreasing by ...
... Party as a concrete organisation or a group of people only when the Communist Party members specially announce that some concrete project is being pursued in the Communist Party branch's name . But these kinds of cases are decreasing by ...
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... Communist Party members to initiate the implementation of project work . For instance , excessive drinking used to be a serious problem in the village . The villagers ' committee had for a long time failed to pass a restrictive ...
... Communist Party members to initiate the implementation of project work . For instance , excessive drinking used to be a serious problem in the village . The villagers ' committee had for a long time failed to pass a restrictive ...
Contents
List of Tables | 11 |
ABC Agricultural Bank of China | 49 |
The Identity | 53 |
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activities administrative agricultural Amendment Andhra Pradesh Anhui bank Beijing brigade cadres candidates caste system cent of villagers changes China Chinese Communist Party Constitution cooperatives decentralisation Delhi democracy democratic district economic development elite formal functions funds Gaca gender grama panchayat grama sabha grass-roots Heilongjiang households hukou Hurqige implementation income informal finance Inner Mongolia institutional exclusion Karnataka kaxie Kerala labour Lahu land leaders Lianjiang loans Maharashtra mandal Maratha ment microcredit microfinance mobilisation NGOs nil nil nil officials organisation participation party secretary peasants people's congress planning political population programmes projects reform representatives role rural China Rural Development sector self-government Seventy-third SHGs Shizhong District social society status structure Tajik taluk panchayats Total township head urban village committee village elections village panchayat vote West Bengal women Zhouzhuang zilla zilla parishad