India's political parties
A study of democracy is incomplete without a study of one of its most fundamental components—political parties. In India, works on the country’s political parties so far have explored, among other things,
Political Decentralisation
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Decentralization in Jharkhand: Some implications for urban service delivery
<p> The main objective of the paper is to assess the status of urban decentralization in the state of Jharkhand in India and to relate it to some major implications on service delivery. We find
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Panchayat leaders for protecting agriculture
The wider democratic role of panchayats was very much in evidence on April 8, 2011 at a conference on 'Agriculture and Panchayats in Rajasthan in the Specific Context of Agreements with Multinational and
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Panchayat leaders for protecting agriculture
While it is widely agreed that an important goal of Panchayati Raj is to ensure better implementation of government's rural development programmes by ensuring participation of people, it is also important
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Hazare and his children
<p>Anna Hazare’s hunger fast last week for probity in politics captured the news agenda and unleashed a nationwide frenzy. Declarations of victory may be premature since the real work of drafting a law on the Lokpal is only just beginning. Corruption is not an abstract evil that can be combated by the virtuous few.
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Panchayats and economic development
<p>The objective of this study is to review the analytical literature on the
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Lohias thinking on local Governments
<p>The papers in the special issue on Rammanohar Lohia (EPW, 2 October 2010) did not dwell on the socialist leader’s thinking on local governance and local development, ideas which continue to be relevant today for rural development.</p>
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Inputs for the approach paper to the 12th Five Year Plan
<p>Inputs for the approach paper to the 12th Five Year Plan.</p>
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Dawn of grassroots democracy in Jharkhand
<p>December 2010 witnessed the dawn of democracy in Jharkhand, which is one of the poorest and Maoist-infested tribal states of India. Polls were held on a non-party basis. </p>
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Panchayati bonanza
<p>This is a special report in Down To Earth on how the 13the Finance Commission puts three times more money in the hands of local governments to spend—at their own will.</p>
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Decentralisation, preference diversity and public spending: Health and education in India
Education and health are commonly devolved functions to sub-national governments, even in nations which have a unitary rather than a federal structure.