Vinay Sahasrabuddhe

Beyond a Billion Ballots: Democratic Reforms for a Resurgent India

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Produktbeschreibung

Beyond a Billion Ballots is an insightful advocacy of a range of political reforms aimed at making India a resurgent republic. In the process, the book reviews various challenges faced by democracy the world over, focussing on issues pertaining to the lack of robust development of its institutions, particularly the political parties. Holding the 'crisis of purpose' in party politics responsible for the weak organisational health of parties, the author unfolds a link between activism bereft of ideology, representation sans results and democracy without deliverables. Written more from a practitioner's viewpoint, the book builds a strong case for liberating political parties from the trap of populist politics through a set of key systemic changes in India's democratic infrastructure.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wisdom Tree
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9788183283229
• ISBN-10: 8183283225
• Artikelnr.: 39724959

Autorenporträt

Vinay Sahasrabuddhe is an activist-researcher. For the last twenty-five years, he has been heading South Asia's only training and research academy for elected representatives and voluntary social workers, the Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini (RMP), Mumbai. As a student activist, he had offered satyagraha and was behind bars for over a month during the Emergency of 1975. He was also a member of the Senate and Management Council of the University of Mumbai for several years. For over a decade, he was in charge of the National Training Cell of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). A freelance journalist s