Power Matters: Essays on Institutions, Politics and Society in India

Author:   John Harriss
Publisher:   OUP India
ISBN:  

9780198063315


Pages:   326
Publication Date:   25 June 2009
Format:   Paperback
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Power Matters: Essays on Institutions, Politics and Society in India


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This volume brings together ten essays from the author's enduring work on the different dimensions of power in Indian society. Harriss' analysis of power has been debated across scholarly and policy making circles, and the public sphere in India. His influence on India's developmental thinking and the debate on state's developmentalist organizations has been substantial. The volume traces how issues of political and institutional power explains economic change, resource management, and poverty, inequality and governance, social capital and civil society - all issues of contemporary and continuing relevance in Indian politics. Apart from a scholarly audience, this volume will appeal to policy planners, technocrats, and activists in organizations.

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Author:   John Harriss
Publisher:   OUP India
Imprint:   OUP India
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.381kg
ISBN:  

9780198063315


ISBN 10:   0198063318
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   25 June 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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<br> It is fundamentally a vigourous defence of the issues that are coming to be sidelined by mainstream development literature...politics, power relations, culture, and class analysis. --The Hindu <br><br>


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John Harriss is Professor of International Studies and Director, School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.

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