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OverviewIn this history, a key figure in the People's Campaign in Kerala provides an insider's account of one of the world's most extensive and successful experiments in decentralization. Launched in 1996, the campaign mobilized over three million of Kerala's 30 million people and resulted in bottom-up development planning in all 1052 of its villages and urban neighbourhoods. The authors detail the background to the campaign, trace its several stages, asses problems and how they were solved or not, and evaluate concrete results and reforms. The work tells a story of mass mobilization and innovation as bureaucratic opposition was overcome, corruption and cynicism were rooted out, and parliamentary democracy prevailed. Considering both the theoretical and applied significance of the campaign in the context both of India's development since independence and of international debates about decentralization, civil society and empowerment, this study seeks to offer valuable lessons for sustainable development world-wide. Full Product DetailsAuthor: T. M. Thomas Isaac , Richard W. FrankePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.449kg ISBN: 9780742516069ISBN 10: 0742516067 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 28 May 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThe book provides a very good account of the process of decentralised planning in Kerala along with its theoretical underpinnings. The book should be essential reading for all those interested in decentralised planning. Journal Of Development Studies An extraordinarily well informed and detailed description of the campaign. Journal of Asian Studies A particularly insightful analysis of the political conditions and configurations that made the campaign possible and those that present important obstacles to its full institutionalization. If democracy is about the actual practice of citizenship, then this book provides a critically important exploration of a particularly ambitious and large-scale experiment in democratic deepening. H-Asia The book provides a very good account of the process of decentralised planning in Kerala along with its theoretical underpinnings. The book should be essential reading for all those interested in decentralised planning. Journal Of Development Studies An extraordinarily well informed and detailed description of the campaign. Journal Of Asian Studies A particularly insightful analysis of the political conditions and configurations that made the campaign possible and those that present important obstacles to its full institutionalization. If democracy is about the actual practice of citizenship, then this book provides a critically important exploration of a particularly ambitious and large-scale experiment in democratic deepening. H-Asia Author InformationT. M. Thomas Isaac is a member of the Kerala State Legislative Assembly and professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Richard W. Franke is professor of anthropology at Montclair State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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