Broadening and Deepening Democracy: Political Innovation in Karnataka

by Raghavan,E

• ISBN13: 9780415544542
• ISBN10: 0415544548
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-18
• Publisher: Routledge India

Summary

In a departure from most books on the politics of the developing world that study political innovation only in terms of technocratic blueprints, administrative processes and incentive systems, this book takes into account the role politicians play in shaping the characters of their governments, public and state-society relations. It focuses on three successive chief ministers of Karnataka who made democracy in the state stronger by triggering significant changes-by ending the dominance of the Congress Party and making way for a genuine multiparty competition; through the decentralisation of power resulting from the creation of powerful local councils, and the inclusion of non-elite groups into the core of the state's politics. These developments opened the way to political transformation in Karnataka from the 1970s onwards.

Author Biography

E. Raghavan was formely Editor, South, Economic Times. James Manor is Emeka Anyaoku Professor at the institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. ix
List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Glossary	p. xi
Forword	p. xiii
Preface	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
D. Devaraj Urs, 1972-80
The Emergence of Urs: The Challenge to the Landed Castes' Dominance of State Politics	p. 15
Consolidating a Broad Social Base: Land Reform, Caste Reservations and the Emergency	p. 40
The End of the Urs Era	p. 71
R. Gundu Rao, 1980-83
An Inept, Insensitive, Brutish Government	p. 89
The Destruction of Congress Dominance	p. 117
Ramakrishna Hegde, 1983-88
Constructing the First Non-Congress Government	p. 137
Struggling for Political Survival	p. 165
Nine Weeks, Two Key Election	p. 184
A Government Like Any Other?	p. 201
Rampant Factionalism-and the Deepening of Democracy	p. 225
Endgame	p. 251
Conclusion	p. 266
Bibliography	p. 283
Index	p. 287
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