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Unpacking participatory democracy : from theory to practice

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hyderabad : Orient BlackSwan, ©2025Description: xii, 267 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9789369736706
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323 ROY-U
Contents:
1. Culture and Democracy
2. Social Accountability through Decentralisation
3. From the ‘Right to Information’ to ‘People’s Data Rights’ The Digital Frontier for Participatory Democracy
4. Desiderata
5. Poor Implementation of ‘Power to the People’ in Urban Areas A Case Study of Karnataka
6. Including the Excluded
7. Notes on Building Democracy in Rural India
8. Building a Culture of Democracy Brick by Brick
9. Including the Wisdom of Pastoral Peoples in India’s Democracy
10. Participatory Democracy How Did it All Go Wrong?
11. Right to Information Curtailed Illegally and Unconstitutionally
12. Before Corona Infected the Indefinite Protests The (Il)legal Story behind Shaheen Bagh
13. Participatory Democracy and Institutional Amnesia India
Summary: Unpacking Participatory Democracy offers some ‘inclusive’ approaches to the ideas of development and democracy. This volume brings together a range of practitioners who have spent decades building organisations and collectives that engage with the practice of democracy, in pursuit of equality and justice. Together, they explore the realities of democratic practice, and combine theoretical perspectives with empirical case studies.
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Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Culture and Democracy

2. Social Accountability through Decentralisation

3. From the ‘Right to Information’ to ‘People’s Data Rights’
The Digital Frontier for Participatory Democracy

4. Desiderata

5. Poor Implementation of ‘Power to the People’ in Urban Areas
A Case Study of Karnataka

6. Including the Excluded

7. Notes on Building Democracy in Rural India

8. Building a Culture of Democracy
Brick by Brick

9. Including the Wisdom of Pastoral Peoples in India’s Democracy

10. Participatory Democracy
How Did it All Go Wrong?

11. Right to Information
Curtailed Illegally and Unconstitutionally

12. Before Corona Infected the Indefinite Protests
The (Il)legal Story behind Shaheen Bagh

13. Participatory Democracy and Institutional Amnesia
India

Unpacking Participatory Democracy offers some ‘inclusive’ approaches to the ideas of development and democracy. This volume brings together a range of practitioners who have spent decades building organisations and collectives that engage with the practice of democracy, in pursuit of equality and justice. Together, they explore the realities of democratic practice, and combine theoretical perspectives with empirical case studies.

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