Download or read book Grass Roots Democracy in India and China written by Manoranjan Mohanty and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007-01-12 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In both India and China, economic reforms have generated challenges for local institutions. This book studies the political experiences in India and China from an interdisciplinary perspective. It examines the process of democratisation, highlighting the demands for participation and the power structures interjecting them.
Download or read book Grass roots Democracy in India and China written by Manoranjan Mohanty and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Muddling Toward Democracy written by Anne F. Thurston and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reader is sure to find this report an important contribution to the ongoing debate in the United States about U.S.-Sino relations.
Download or read book Grassroot Democracy in Indian Society written by G. Palanithurai and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grassroots Elections in China written by Kevin J. O'Brien and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years after the launch of village elections, the time is ripe to assess the progress and impact of China’s most notable political reform. Where have elections been conducted well and where have they been conducted poorly? How have procedures changed over the years and have elections truly transformed how power is exercised in the countryside? What methods are researchers employing to study elections and how have scholars from different disciplines contributed to our knowledge of grassroots politics in China? This book carefully examines the implementation and effects of China’s village, township, and people’s congress elections, both in terms of democratizing the polity and spurring other changes in state-society relations. The chapters in this book have been published across several issues of the Journal of Contemporary China.
Download or read book Ballot Box China written by Kerry Brown and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1988, China has undergone one of the largest, but least understood experiments in grassroots democracy. Across 600,000 villages in China, with almost a million elections, some three million officials have been elected. The Chinese government believes that this is a step towards `democracy with Chinese characteristics'. But to many involved in them, the elections have been mired by corruption, vote-rigging and cronyism. This book looks at the history of these elections, how they arose, what they have achieved and where they might be going, exploring the specific experience of elections by those who have taken part in them - the villagers in some of the most deprived areas of China.
Download or read book Development of China s Grassroots Democracy written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Muddling Toward Democracy written by Anne F. Thurston and published by . This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most significant political reforms implemented by the Chinese government since 1989 is the introduction of competitive elections into rural villages. This study examines China's efforts to bring competitive elections to the country's rural areas & attempts to explain why local democracy has proved more successful in some places than in others. The study also attempts to reintroduce China-as-China into public dialogue. Chapters: rural Sichuan Province, Nov. 1995; the roots of political reform in China's villages; the varieties of village self-governance; the requisites for success; & the U. S. response to Chinese political reform.
Download or read book The Grassroots of Democracy written by Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Minjian written by Sebastian Veg and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 1990s, a novel type of grassroots intellectual emerged. Instead of harking back to the traditional role of the literati or pronouncing on democracy and modernity like 1980s public intellectuals, they derive legitimacy from their work with the vulnerable and the marginalized, often proclaiming their independence with a heavy dose of anti-elitist rhetoric. They are proudly minjian—unofficial, unaffiliated, and among the people. In this book, Sebastian Veg explores the rise of minjian intellectuals and how they have profoundly transformed China’s public culture. An intellectual history of contemporary China, Minjian documents how, amid deep structural shifts, grassroots thinker-activists began to work outside academia or policy institutions in an embryonic public sphere. Veg explores the work of amateur historians who question official accounts, independent documentarians who let ordinary people speak for themselves, and grassroots lawyers and NGO workers who spread practical knowledge. Their interventions are specific rather than universal, with a focus on concrete problems among disenfranchised populations such as victims of Maoism, migrant workers and others without residence permits, and petitioners. Drawing on careful analysis of public texts by grassroots intellectuals and the networks and publics among which they circulate, Minjian is a groundbreaking transdisciplinary exploration of crucial trends developing under the surface of contemporary Chinese society.
Download or read book Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China written by Harriet Evans and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent heritage boom in China is transforming local social, economic, and cultural life and reshaping domestic and global notions of China's national identity. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted largely by young anthropologists in China, Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China departs from the dominant top-down UNESCO-influenced narrative of cultural heritage preservation and approaches the local not as a fixed definition of place but as a shifting site of negotiation between state, entrepreneurial, transcultural, and local community interests. The volume takes readers along an unusual trajectory between a disadvantaged neighborhood in central Beijing, metropolitan centers in Anhui and Sichuan, Quanzhou in the southeast, and Yunnan in the southwest before finally ending at the great Samye Monastery in Tibet. Across these sites, the contributors converge in apprehending the grassroots as an arena of everyday life and belonging underpinning ordinary social interactions and cultural practices as diverse as funeral rituals, Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimages, and encounters between young contemporary artists and the Bloomsbury Group. In examining the diversity of local cultural practices and knowledge that underpin ideas about cultural value, this volume argues that grassroots cultural beliefs are essential to the liveability and sustainability of life and living heritage.
Download or read book Politics of Grassroots Democracy in India written by M. R. Biju and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maoism at the Grassroots written by Jeremy Brown and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maoism at the Grassroots challenges state-centered views of China under Mao, providing insights into the lives of citizens across social strata, ethnicities, and regions. It reveals how ordinary people risked persecution and imprisonment in order to assert personal beliefs and identities, despite political repression and surveillance.
Download or read book Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China written by Elizabeth J. Perry and published by . This book was released on 2007-03-31 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Observers often note the glaring contrast between China’s economic progress and its stalled political reforms. This volume, written by experienced scholars, explores a range of grassroots efforts—initiated by the state and society alike—to restrain corrupt behavior and enhance the accountability of local authorities.
Download or read book Grassroots Democracy and Governance in India written by Amiya Kumar Das and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book approaches grassroots governance and democracy from a sociological perspective, focusing on the interaction between the community and the State. It explores the interrelationship between state, governance and community and demonstrates the performativity aspects of both political actors and citizens in various elections in India. It also highlights the need to understand the dynamics of governance in a multi-ethnic society and democracy like India both at the micro and macro levels. Offering detailed explanations of formal and informal governance in people's everyday lives, it reviews some of the key debates on governance with respect to the engagement of the community. This book is intended for academics, researchers, activists, planners and policymakers from a range of disciplines, such as sociology, public policy, social anthropology, development studies, politics and regional development, interested in governance and development in India.
Download or read book Muddling Towards Democracy written by Anne F. Thurston and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
