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This study examines the political economy of how institutional designs for governance are created and the role of local politics in shaping institutions. While some recent approaches to governance and decentralization are normative, economistic, and technocratic, the Local in Governance underlines the importance of the political. It studies the different architectures of decentralization, based on multiple ideas and values on the ground. The idea of the political ...
This book examines the nature of state planning and intervention in irrigation development, particularly through large dams, in the light of its critique by emergent ecological movements. It is, significantly, as much about the politics of environment, as it is about control over water. The author makes a critique of large dams on the basis of their economic performance, ecological impact, displacement caused by their construction, and the unequal distribution of ...
This comprehensive volume looks at local governments in rural India as an opportunity to broaden the democratic structure and space for popular participation in local governance. It reviews select state models of decentralization in the country and assesses the form of democratic development possible through the institution of local governments. The work represents an emerging genre of literature on decentralization that is not judgemental on the various ...