Gender and Decentralised Planning, Kerala, India
Author: Aleyamma Vijayan
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 112
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Author: Aleyamma Vijayan
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: M. A. Oommen
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributed articles presented earlier in an international seminar held at New Delhi on New Delhi on October 7-9, 2005.
Author: T. M. Thomas Isaac
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780742516076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this definitive history, a key figure in the People's Campaign in Kerala provides a unique insider's account of one of the world's most extensive and successful experiments in decentralization. Launched in 1996, the campaign mobilized over 3 million of Kerala's 30 million people and resulted in bottom-up development planning in all 1,052 of its villages and urban neighborhoods. The authors tell a powerful story of mass mobilization and innovation as bureaucratic opposition was overcome, corruption and cynicism were rooted out, and parliamentary democracy prevailed. Considering both the theoretical and applied significance of the campaign in the context both of India's development since independence and of recent international debates about decentralization, civil society, and empowerment, the book provides invaluable lessons for sustainable development worldwide.
Author: J. Devika
Publisher: Zubaan
Published: 2012-06-25
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9381017395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on a large number of interviews with women politicians of many generations and women who have entered the three-tier Panchayati Raj institutions since the mid-1990s in Kerala, this book tries to initiate fresh debate on the impact of the large-scale induction of women into the institutions of local self-government in India. The State of Kerala has been hailed as a success story in accommodating gender concerns in local-level planning and political decentralisation; this conclusion has been based on relatively simple evaluative exercises that ask whether women of diverse backgrounds have gained entry into formal institutions of governance or not. This book seeks to place political decentralisation and its possibilities for women within the historical and contemporary contexts. Against the popular assumption that the liberal feminist promise made by the state will be delivered, say, once the noxious influence of male relatives is removed, the book points to the multiple social forces that shape possibilities and hindrances for women, and reshape gender divisions in the political field. The book thus pays attention to women in both local governance and politics. Secondly, it examines how women have utilised, extended, survived within or subverted these spaces. In the present context in which fifty per cent of the seats in the institutions of local self-government are being reserved for women, and there exists considerable skepticism about reservations for women in the Parliament, this book offers reflections on both local governance and ‘high’ politics. Published by Zubaan.
Author: Richard W.. Franke
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9788187496182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dr. K. Muraleedharan
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudy conducted in Kerala, India.
Author: D. Rajasekhar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-09-28
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1000461602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the process of decentralisation in India since the 1992 legislation which devolved powers to local government bodies to ensure greater participation in local governance and planning. It studies the functioning of gram sabhas, panchayats, school development committees, water supply and sanitation committees, Residents Welfare Associations, and rural development schemes like the MGNREGS, analysing their effectiveness and tracing the political, administrative, and fiscal powers the local government wields. With case studies from different Indian states, the book examines the functioning of local governance mechanisms and institutions in relation to crucial issues such as citizen participation, the participation of women and disadvantaged groups, fiscal decentralisation, peace-building, economic development, and education, among others. Comprehensive and insightful, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of development studies, political science, public policy, governance studies, regional development, political economy, political sociology, public administration, and South Asian studies, especially those focusing on India.
Author: J. Devika
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9789381017180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: S. Gregory
Publisher: IRISH
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 8188432148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: P. N. Sankaran
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Trend Towards Decentralization Worldwide Has Been Accompanied By Differing Perceptions On Its Costs And Benefits. Decentralization Of Power From The Centre To The Provinces, Districts And Villages, Of Course, Enables People To Participate In Decision-Making More Directly. However, Democratic Decentralization Requires More Than Just Decentralization And Devolving Power. It Also Envisages Widening Participation Of The Marginalized- Women, Minorities And The Poor- And Increasing Accountability Of Public Officials At Local Levels. Framed Against The Above Background, The Book Presents An Introductory Overview Of The Global And Regional Processes In Decentralization And Proceeds To Unfold The Dynamics Of Institutional Proliferation/Linkages, Issues Of Inclusion And Participatory Justice, Protection Of Human Rights At The Grassroots, Accountability And Transparency Under Decentralized Governance, And Social Development Perspectives Of Decentralized Planning Process. Apart From Its Broad Reflections On The Indian Scenario, The Book Captures The Specific Experience Of Kerala In Decentralization Over The Last Decade.