1st Edition
Citizen Initiatives and Democratic Engagement Experiences from India
By Sumona DasGupta
Copyright 2010
206 Pages
by
Routledge India
206 Pages
by
Routledge India
206 Pages
by
Routledge India
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This book looks at a series of citizen-led campaigns to provide information about and energise the institutions of local self-governance in India following the 73rd and 74th Amendment Acts. Staggering in their outreach and magnitude, the campaigns, popularly known as PEVACs (Pre-election Voters’ Awareness Campaigns), reached out to huge swathes of the population, particularly in rural India,... Read more
Preface. Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Vignettes from the Field 3. The 73rd Amendment Act: New Alignments, New Animosities 4. The Pre-election Voters’ Awareness Campaigns: An Analysis 5. PEVACs and the State Election Commission: Building Common Ground 6. Beyond Elections: Sustaining the Democratic Impulse 7. Deepening Democracy: An Overview 8. Conclusions and Reflections for the Future. Bibliography. About the Author. Index
Biography
Sumona DasGupta is a political scientist working as an independent researcher and consultant.
