Power matters: essays on institutions, politics, and society in India/
Harriss, John
Power matters: essays on institutions, politics, and society in India/ John Harriss - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006. - xii, 314 p. ; 23 cm.
1. 'Borderlands of economics' : institutions, politics and culture in the explanation of economic change --
2. Making out on limited resources --
3. Why poor people stay poor in rural south India --
4. Rural inequality matters : constraints on growth linkages from agriculture --
5. Between economism and post-modernism : reflections on research on 'agrarian change' in India --
6. 'Widening the radius of trust' : ethnographic explorations of trust and Indian business --
7. For an anthropology of the modern Indian state --
8. Do political regimes matter? Poverty reduction and regime differences across India --
9. Public action and the dialectics of decentralization : against the myth of social capital as 'the missing link in development' --
10. 'Politics is a dirty river' : But is there a 'new politics' of civil society? : Perspectives from global cities of India and Latin America.
0195678974
Politics and culture
Social classes
306.20954 / HAR/P
Power matters: essays on institutions, politics, and society in India/ John Harriss - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006. - xii, 314 p. ; 23 cm.
1. 'Borderlands of economics' : institutions, politics and culture in the explanation of economic change --
2. Making out on limited resources --
3. Why poor people stay poor in rural south India --
4. Rural inequality matters : constraints on growth linkages from agriculture --
5. Between economism and post-modernism : reflections on research on 'agrarian change' in India --
6. 'Widening the radius of trust' : ethnographic explorations of trust and Indian business --
7. For an anthropology of the modern Indian state --
8. Do political regimes matter? Poverty reduction and regime differences across India --
9. Public action and the dialectics of decentralization : against the myth of social capital as 'the missing link in development' --
10. 'Politics is a dirty river' : But is there a 'new politics' of civil society? : Perspectives from global cities of India and Latin America.
0195678974
Politics and culture
Social classes
306.20954 / HAR/P