Why Democracy Deepens - Political Information and Decentralization in India

Why Democracy Deepens explains how socio-economic changes in India are shaping its politics to promote grassroots democracy.

List of contents

1. Differences in democratic deepening; 2. Measuring democratic deepening; 3. Politics of democratic deepening; 4. Explaining democratic deepening; 5. Local information and democratic deepening; 6. Politics of local information; 7. Politics of local information and democracy.

About the author

Anoop Sadanandan is a social scientist and an assistant professor at the Maxwell School of Public Affairs and Citizenship, Syracuse University, New York. He specializes in political economy and comparative politics, and has an abiding interest in India.

Summary

India is in the midst of vast economic and social changes. Why Democracy Deepens explains how the country's socio-economic changes are shaping its democratic institutions, and how the uneven nature of these changes have heightened the need for local voter information, promoting grassroots democracy in some Indian states.

Product details

• Authors: Anoop Sadanandan, Anoop (Syracuse University Sadanandan, Sadanandan Anoop
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9781107177512
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17751-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, India, Political structures: democracy, Politics and government, Constitution: government & the state, Political ideologies and movements, Constitution: government and the state, Regional, state and other local government, Regional government, Political structures / systems: democracy