{"product_id":"local-democracy-and-development-9780742516076","title":"Local Democracy and Development","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this definitive history, a key figure in the People''s Campaign in Kerala provides an 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 detail the background of the campaign, trace its stages, assess problems and successes, and evaluate concrete results and reforms.   Local Democracy and Development tells 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 both in the context of India''s development since independence and of recent international debates about decentralization, civil society, and empowerment, this study provides invaluable l\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book provides a very good account of the process of decentralised planning in Kerala along with its theoretical underpinnings. The book should be essential reading for all those interested in decentralised planning. * Journal Of Development Studies *\u003cbr\u003eAn extraordinarily well informed and detailed description of the campaign. * Journal of Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003eA particularly insightful analysis of the political conditions and configurations that made the campaign possible and those that present important obstacles to its full institutionalization. If democracy is about the actual practice of citizenship, then this book provides a critically important exploration of a particularly ambitious and large-scale experiment in democratic deepening. * H-Asia *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Chapter 1. Decentralization, Democracy, and Development: The Kerala Experiment 2 Behind the Campaign: Political Vision, Civil Society, and the Kerala Model 3 Phase 1: the Grama Sabhas—Identifying Local Needs 4 Phase 2: PDRs and Seminars—What Is to Be Done? 5 Phase 3: Task Forces Prepare the Projects 6 Phase 4: Elected Councils Formulate the Plans 7 Phase 5: Planning Up Instead of Down—The Blocks and Districts 8 Taking Stock: The First Year's Local Plans, 1997-1998 9 From People's Planning to Plan Implementation 10 The Great Laboratory 11 From Experiment to Institution: The Plans and the Campaign, 1998-2001 12 The Long March Ahead 13 The Kerala Experiment in International Perspective","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884326400343,"sku":"9780742516076","price":54.82,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780742516076.jpg?v=1722531454","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/local-democracy-and-development-9780742516076","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}