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This book delves into the role of corporate social responsibility and panchayati raj in new dimension of rural development. This book is designed into two sections - first section deals with role of state and corporate houses in sustainable rural livelihood and food security in five chapters while second section reviews participatory approaches of panchayati raj in implementing rural development programmes in a decentralised framework in next three chapters.
The second edition of this book has reconstructed an ideological and empirical examination of socia-economic behaviour and social change of Pukhtun tribe. It also explains the integral situation of the religious and occupational groups within Pukhtum social structure and the functioning of their right and duties in society. This edition is redesign in five chapters that deals with social behaviour and societal changes; settlement patterns of social-economic ...
This book is a critical analysis of conflict and compromise between civil society and modern politics. Theory of civil society and its relation with modern politics has been drawn from two main sources: first, the writings of Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx and, more recently, Weber, Schmitt, Benjamin, Adorno and Arendt; attempts to sustain it in a public sphere, and political recognition in contemporary world. Here, it will attempt to answer these questions with a ...
In this book, we have carefully examined the converging models of democratic citizenship, voting behaviour and multi-party behavioural research in applied politics. Here we have tried to convey the analytical application of applied research methodology in political behaviour which has contributed to the central importance concern in this discipline. Of course, behavrioural research in political science could be done better and in its scholarly attempt has been ...
The main objective of this study is to construct an ideological and empirical examination of socio-economic behaviour and Social Changes of Pukhtun tribe. This work has been classified in five chapters: Social Behaviour and Societal Changes: an Ideological and Empirical Study; Settlement Patterns and Domestic Structures; Lineage and Leadership; Economic Behaviour and Lineage Ideology; and Socio-economic Mechanism: Patrons and Client Relationships. Undoubtedly, ...
In this book, author has presented multidimensional approach of social stratification in Western and Indian sociology in six chapters: Social Stratification in Social system; Social Thought for Social Change; Social Class and Class Culture; Pattern of Stratification Systems; Process of Indian Social Stratification; and Caste Stratification in Indian society. This work is an ambitious, scholarly, and provocative, and hope this book will stimulate researchers and ...
Liberty and Liberalism is a big book dedicated to the defence of classical liberalism in both politics and economics. It was written at a time when liberalism was under pressure to abandon the philosophy of free market in favour of a much greater role for government in the economy. Bruce Smith wrote this erudite volume because he feared that liberalism was being perverted by the 'new' liberals who believed in expanding state activity. A businessman and politician ...