1. This book examines experiments in decentralized development and related topics as cooperativism and self-management from a global and comparative perspective and tries to arrive at some general conclusions about the viability and promise offered by these.
2. The book examines different countries and their states - such as Kerala in India, South Africa, Brazil, etc.
3. It will be of interest to departments of international development, political science, business, community development, social justice as well as of cooperative management programs across the US and US.
Joseph Tharamangalam holds the Ayyankali Chair at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He is also Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada and Adjunct Professor of International Development Studies at St. Mary's University, Halifax, Canada. He has published extensively on agrarian struggles, human development, decentralisation and co-operativism in India, Cuba and elsewhere.
Jos Chathukulam is former Professor of Sri. Ramakrishna Hegde Chair Professor of Decentralization and Development, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) Bengaluru, India. Currently, Chathukulam is the Director of Centre for Rural Management (CRM), Kottayam, Kerala, India. He has done extensive research on decentralisation and local governance across Indian states, Latin America and Africa. He is an expert of 'Devolution Index', which is used to compare the rate of decentralisation across the Indian states.
Title: Deepening Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on Decentralization, Cooperativism and Self-Managed Development
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ISBN: 9781032132846
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2022-12-30
Number of Pages: 250
Weight: 0.3851 kg