| Local Democracy and Development: The Kerala People's Campaign for Decentralized Planning |  | Authors: Richard W. Franke, T. M. Thomas Isaac
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Category: Book
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 0742516075
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.8095483
EAN: 9780742516076
ASIN: 0742516075
Publication Date: July 2002
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In this definitive history, a key figure in the People's Campaign in Kerala provides a unique insider's account of one of the world's most extensive and successful experiments in decentralization. Launched in 1996, the campaign mobilized over 3 million of Kerala's 30 million people and resulted in bottom-up development planning in all 1,052 of its villages and urban neighborhoods. The authors tell a powerful 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 recent international debates about decentralization, civil society, and empowerment, the book provides invaluable lessons for sustainable development worldwide.
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