Local Democracy and Development The Kerala People's Campaign for Decentralized Planning,9780742516069

Local Democracy and Development The Kerala People's Campaign for Decentralized Planning

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ISBN13: 9780742516069
ISBN10: 0742516067
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-05-28
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

T.M. Thomas Isaac is a member of the Kerala State Legislative Assembly and was until recently a professor at the Centre for Development Studies in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Richard W. Franke is professor of anthropology at Montclair State University

Table of Contents

List of Tables
vii
List of Abbreviations
ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
Decentralization, Democracy, and Development: The Kerala Experiment
1(20)
Behind the Campaign: Political Vision, Civil Society, and the Kerala Model
21(21)
Phase 1: The Grama Sabhas-Identifying Local Needs
42(17)
Phase 2: PDRs and Seminars-What Is to Be Done?
59(14)
Phase 3: Task Forces Prepare the Projects
73(11)
Phase 4: Elected Councils Formulate the Plans
84(13)
Phase 5: Planning Up Instead of Down-The Blocks and Districts
97(18)
Taking Stock: The First Year's Local Plans, 1997-1998
115(15)
From People's Planning to Plan Implementation
130(15)
The Great Laboratory
145(15)
From Experiment to Institution: The Plans and the Campaign, 1998-2001
160(22)
The Long March Ahead
182(14)
The Kerala Experiment in International Perspective
196(21)
Glossary 217(2)
References Cited 219(14)
Index 233(8)
About the Authors 241

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