Democracy and Development in India

From Socialism to Pro-Business
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-806847-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 460 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

This volume brings together Atul Kohli's essays published over the last twenty-five years. They are organized in three sections, each section representing a distinct theme-political change; political economy; and politics and development in select states.

The introductory essay provides an 'umbrella' for these essays, giving the volume a significant and useful coherence. This essay accomplishes two intellectual tasks-outlines the state-society frame of reference that underlies much of the author's published work; and provides an overview of the author's interpretation of broad political and economic changes in India, especially in the post-Nehru period. It also provides references to other relevant works not included in this volume, and then situates the specific essays in the volume within the broader changes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kohli, Atul

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Tables and Figures, Publisher's Acknowledgements; Introduction;

- I. Political Change:

- 1.: Centralization and Powerlessness: India's Democracy in a Comparative Perspective;

- 2.: Can Democracies Accommodate Ethnic Nationalism: Rise and Decline of Self-Determination Movements in India;

- 3.: Enduring Another Election: India Defies the Odds;

- 4.: From Majority to Minority Rule: Making Sense of the 'New' Indian Politics;

- II. Political Economy:

- 5.: India's Fragmented-Multiclass State and Protected Industrialization;

- 6.: Politics of Economic Growth in India, 1980-2005, Part I: The 1980s;

- 7.: Politics of Economic Growth in India, 1980-2005, Part II: The 1990s and Beyond;

- 8.: Politics of Economic Liberalization in India;

- 9.: Regime Types and Poverty Reform in India;

- III. Politics and Development in Select States:

- 10.: Breakdown in a 'Backward' State: Bihar;

- 11.: Growing Turmoil in an 'Advanced' State: Gujarat;

- 12.: From Elite Activism to Democratic Consolidation: The Rise of Reform Communism in West Bengal;

- 13.: Parliamentary Communism and Agrarian Reform: The Evidence from India's Bengal;

- 14.: The NTR Phenomenon in Andhra Pradesh: Political Change in a South Indian State;

- 15.: Karnataka's Land Reforms: A Model for India?; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Atul Kohli is David K.E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs, and Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University.