Embedding poor people's voices in local governance: participation and political empowerment in India. End of Grant Report.
Abstract
The project바카라 사이트™s central research question is: to what extent do initiatives to make local governance more participatory enhance poor people's opportunities for political empowerment?
Looking at West Bengal and Kerala, Indian States internationally recognised for innovation in decentralised governance, it examines poor people's use of the formal opportunities they have for participation within the local state. This 바카라 사이트˜invited participation바카라 사이트™ is examined within the context of the social relations reproducing poverty and marginalisation, and informal structures of authority and power, both of which reshape governance reforms away from their intended practice.
Through this grounded comparative study, it provides wider lessons about the opportunities and limitations for building poor people바카라 사이트™s political empowerment and substantive citizenship through programmes of governance reform.
Citation
Williams, G; Nanddigama, S; Thampi, B.; Bhattacharyya, D.; Narayana, D. Embedding poor people바카라 사이트™s voices in local governance: participation and political empowerment in India. End of Grant Report. (2011) 8 pp.
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