Development, Decentralization and Democracy: Exploring Social Capital and Politicization in the Bengal RegionThis book explores the controversy in political science surrounding the civil society/social capital paradigm, by studying the performance of decentralized governments in West Bengal and Bangladesh. Gram panchayats and NGOs provide the focus of the study. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 6 |
the result of social capital formation | 33 |
Decentralization and popular participation in India | 47 |
Civil society effective participation and the local state in rural | 73 |
Civil society effective participation and the local state in rural | 109 |
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accountability activists administration agricultural labourers argues Bangladesh Barddhaman Barddhaman district Barga bargadars cent central chairman civil associations civil society co-operatives collective action Congress conscientization CPI(M decentralization democracy democratic performance development programmes Dhaka dilemma directly elected discuss distributed donors doubt economic empowerment effective participation electoral empower empowerment strategies funds government performance gram panchayats gram sangsads Grameen Bank grassroots implementation India initiatives institutions interests issues Katwa Kerala khas land Kisan Sabha land reforms landless leaders Left Front government Lieten mainly mass fronts Memari ment Midnapore mobilization movements Mukarji and Bandyopadhyay Naxalite Nilphamari district panchayat members panchayat samity party members patronage peasants people's organization policies political parties poor popular participation pradhan pro-poor qualitative radical NGOs responsiveness role rural areas Saldya scholars seats self-organization sharecroppers social capital socio-economic empowerment structures tend thana Törnquist 1998 types of politicization union parishads upazila Webster West Bengal Westergaard 1996b women