Anjali Thomas Bohlken

Democratization from Above

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book explains why some national and state governments in the developing world introduce reforms to make local governance more democratic while others do not.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781107569454
• ISBN-10: 1107569451
• Artikelnr.: 50761243

Autorenporträt

Anjali Thomas Bohlken is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. She received her Ph.D. from New York University in 2010. Bohlken specializes in comparative politics and political economy with an emphasis on India.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The puzzle of 'democratization from above'; 2. The strategic logic of
local democratization; 3. Local intermediaries, local democratization, and
political party organizations in India; 4. 'Constitutionalizing' local
democracy: explaining the 1993 national constitutional amendments; 5.
Intra-party competition and local democracy in the Indian states: a
statistical analysis; 6. Intra-party competition and local governance
reform in Kerala and Tamil Nadu; 7. Local politicians as intermediaries:
the effect of village-level politicians on state-level elections; 8. The
logic of local democratization across the developing world; 9. Implications
of 'democratization from above'; 10. Data appendix: dataset on local
democratization reforms in the developing world.