Ebook: Democracy, Development, and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India
Author: Ashutosh Varshney
- Genre: Other Social Sciences // Sociology
- Tags: Социологические дисциплины, Социология политики
- Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
- Year: 1995
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Language: English
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What happens to the rural folk--to their power and economic well-being--when development takes place in a democratic framework? Focusing on India where, unlike most of the developing world, a democratic system has flourished for four decades, this book investigates how the rural sector uses its numbers in a democracy to further its economic and political interests. The book also argues that identities constitute a powerful constraint on the pursuit of economic interests.
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