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Deepening Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on Decentralization, Cooperativism and Self-Managed Development book cover

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Deepening Democracy Comparative Perspectives on Decentralization, Cooperativism and Self-Managed Development

Edited By Joseph Tharamangalam, Jos Chathukulam Copyright 2023
266 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

266 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

266 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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This book examines the renewed interest and commitment that countries across the world have shown in recent decades towards adopting models of decentralising, or "downsizing" the state, and moving towards more participatory models of government. It examines systems of decentralised development such as self-managing co-operatives from a global and comparative perspective with a focus on... Read more
1. Introduction: Experiments of Deepening Democracy Through Decentralized Governance: An Overview Part I - Concepts and Visions: Some Reflections 2. Embedded Democracy 3. Socialist Construction and Commoning 4. Thinking Beyond Capitalism 5. Covid 19 Context in India and Working Towards Alternative Paradigms 6. Citizenship and Social Suffering in the Context of Covid 19 Part II - Decentralized Governance and Development in Comparative Perspective 7. Roles of NGOs, State and For-Profit Organizations in Improving Maternal and Child Sector in Bangladesh: Towards a Division of Labour 8. Comparative Notes on the Pros and Cons of Decentralization in the Context of the Corona Crisis 9. The Cure Remains a Symptom: Sub-National Government, Democracy and Development in South Africa 10. Democratic Decentralization in Kerala: A Critique of Recent Experience 11. The Capacity Conundrum, Decentralization and Local Governance: How Kerala Tackles It 12. Employment Creation at Decentralized Level Through Construction of Niche Structure and Promotion of Self-Organization Part III - Experiments in Cooperativism, Decentralized Governance and Self-Management 13. Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-Liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestión 14. Factory Takeovers for Production Under Self-Management: Three Examples From Europe 15. Cooperativism to Manage Covid 19 16. From Agricultural Cooperatives to Farmer Producing Companies – Analyzing the Transition of Cooperativism in India Part IV - Conclusion

Biography

Joseph Tharamangalam holds the Ayyankali Chair at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He is also Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada and Adjunct Professor of International Development Studies at St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada. He has published extensively on agrarian struggles, human development, decentralisation and co-operativism in India, Cuba and elsewhere.

 

Jos Chathukulam is former Professor of Sri. Ramakrishna Hegde Chair Professor of Decentralization and Development, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) Bengaluru, India. Currently, Chathukulam is the Director of Centre for Rural Management (CRM), Kottayam, Kerala, India. He has done extensive research on decentralisation and local governance across Indian states, Latin America and Africa. He is an expert of 'Devolution Index', which is used to compare the rate of decentralisation across the Indian states.

 

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