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.