Grass-Roots Democracy in India and China: The Right to Participate

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Preface Introduction: Local Governance, Local Democracy and the Right to Participate - Manoranjan Mohanty PART I: INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE AND LOCAL PARTICIPATION Local Government System in India and China: Learning from Each Other - George Mathew Dependency versus Autonomy: The Identity Crisis of India's Panchayats - D. Bandyopadhyay, Saila K Ghosh and Buddhadeb Ghosh Rural Political Participation in the Maoist and Post-Mao Periods - Xiaohong Zhou Selecting Within the Rules: Institutional Innovation in China's Governance - Tony Saich and Xuedong Yang 'Civil Society' Revisited: The Anatomy of a Rural NGO in Qinghai - Richard Baum and Xin Zhang Changes in Local Administration and their Impact on Community Life in the Grasslands of Inner Mongolia Village Panchayats in Maharashtra - Rajendra Vora Kerala's People's Plan Campaign 1996-2001: A Critical Assessment - T. M. Thomas Isaac Panchayati Raj System in Karnataka: Trends and Issues - B.S. Bhargava and K. Subha PART II: LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND THE EMERGING SOCIO-ECONOMIC ISSUES Imperfect Substitutes: The Local Political Economy of Informal Finance and Microfinance in Rural China and India - Kellee S. Tsai Stratification and Institutional Exclusion in China and India: Administrative Means versus Social Barriers - Fei-Ling Wang Women and Local Power in India and China - Bidyut Mohanty Gender, Work and Power in an Andhra Village - M. Vanamala Democracy, Good Governance and Economic Development in Rural China - David Zweig and Chung Siu Fung Grass-roots Democracy: The Working of Panchayati Raj Institutions in Andhra Pradesh - G.Haragopal and G. Sudarshanam The Environment, the Family and Local Government among the Tajik People - Shengmin Yang The Evolution and Function of the Kaxie System of the Lahu People in South-west China - Shaoying He Social Change and the Development of Democracy in Local Governance in Tibet - Tanzen Lhundup The Party, the Village Committee and the Monastery: Functions and Interactions of Three Institutions at the Grass Roots. - Changjiang Yu COMPARATIVE REFLECTIONS Reconceptualising Local Democracy: Reflections on Democracy, Power and Resistance in the Indian and Chinese Countryside - Manoranjan Mohanty and Mark Selden Index