At Home with Democracy A Theory of Indian Politics /

This book presents numerous discussions of specific aspects of democratic politics, showing how 'democracy' can be projected as a model of deliberate imperfection - a model that tolerates various loose ends in the system - and how democracy recognizes a multiplicity of possible courses ope...

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Hlavní autor: Sheth, D.L (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Singapore : Springer Singapore, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
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ISBN:9789811064128
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Obsah:
  • Introduction: 'A Political theory of Indian Democracy' by Peter Ronald deSouza
  • Section I: State, Nation, Democracy
  • Chapter 1: Historicizing India's Nationhood: History as Contemporary Politics
  • Chapter 2: State-Nation Building: The Making of Liberal Democracy
  • Chapter 3: Crisis of Political Authority
  • Section II: Parapolitics of Democracy
  • Chapter 4: Civil Society and Non-party Political Formations
  • Chapter 5: Transformative Politics of Grassroots Movements
  • Chapter 6: Law and Outcasts of Development
  • Section III: Social Power and Democracy
  • Chapter 7: Secularization of Caste and the Making of the New Middle-Class
  • Chapter 8: The Dalit Question in Four Frames
  • Chapter 12: The Great Language Debate: Politics of Metropolitan Versus Vernacular India
  • Section IV: Representation in Liberal Democracy
  • Chapter 10: Interests and Identities: The Changing Politics of Representation
  • Chapter 11: Minority Politics: The Shifting Terms of Policy Discourse
  • Chapter 12: Growth of Communal Polarization in Gujarat and the Making of a Hindutva Laboratory
  • Section V: Emerging Challenges of Democracy
  • Chapter 13: Revisiting the Reservations Policy
  • Chapter 14: Entering the Twenty-first Century: Changes in National Politics and Discourse
  • Chapter 15: Democratizing Global Governance: A Minimalist Perspective.