Grass-Roots Democracy in India and China
The Right To Participate
- Manoranjan Mohanty - Council for Social Development and University of Delhi, Delhi, India
- George Mathew - Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi
- Richard Baum - University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- Rong Ma - Institute of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Beijing
Political Institutions
The contributors to this volume discuss issues relating to institutional structures and the dynamics of local governance in a changing socio-economic environment that panchayati raj in India and village committee system in China represent. In addition to the political economy of rural areas, they also focus on the role of gender, caste, class, ethnicity and religion in local political processes.
This volume is the product of a collaborative research effort by scholars from India, China and the US analysing the experience of grass-roots political processes in India and China in a comparative perspective in the context of theoretical debates relating to participatory democracy.
This book is successful to a great extent in examining and evaluating the process of democratiation and highlighting the growing demands for participations and complex power structures.
This volume closely studies the resultant grass-roots political experiences in these countries from an interdisciplinary perspective.