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Deepening Democracy Joseph Tharamangalam

Deepening Democracy By Joseph Tharamangalam

Deepening Democracy by Joseph Tharamangalam

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Summary

The last decades of the 20th century saw a new interest and commitment in democracies across the world in downsizing the state. Two decades into the 21st century, the results seem to be mixed, with some success stories as well as some not so successful experiments.

Deepening Democracy Summary

Deepening Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on Decentralization, Cooperativism and Self-Managed Development by Joseph Tharamangalam

1. This book examines experiments in decentralized development and related topics as cooperativism and self-management from a global and comparative perspective and tries to arrive at some general conclusions about the viability and promise offered by these.
2. The book examines different countries and their states - such as Kerala in India, South Africa, Brazil, etc.
3. It will be of interest to departments of international development, political science, business, community development, social justice as well as of cooperative management programs across the US and US.

About Joseph Tharamangalam

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.

Table of Contents

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 Autogestion 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

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NLS9781032132846
9781032132846
1032132841
Deepening Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on Decentralization, Cooperativism and Self-Managed Development by Joseph Tharamangalam
Joseph Tharamangalam
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2022-12-30
250
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