Grass-roots democracy in India and China: the right to participate/ 
editors, Manoranjan Mohanty [et autres]. 
 - New Delhi : Thousand Oaks, Calif.:    SAGE Publications,   2006. 
 - 498 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm 
<br/><br/>Local government system in India and China : learning from each other / George Mathew -- Dependency versus autonomy : the identity crisis of India's panchayats / D. Bandyopadhyay, Saila K Ghosh and Buddhadeb Ghosh -- Rural political participation in the Maoist and post-Mao periods / Xiaohong Zhou -- Selecting within the rules : institutional innovation in China's governance / Tony Saich and Xuedong Yang -- 'Civil society' revisited : the anatomy of a rural NGO in Qinghai / Richard Baum and Xin Zhang -- Changes in local administration and their impact on community life in the grasslands of inner Mongolia / Rong Ma -- Village panchayats in Maharashtra / Rajendra Vora -- Kerala's people's plan campaign 1996-2001 : a critical assessment / T M. Thomas Isaac -- Panchayati raj system in Karnataka : trends and issues / B.S. Bhargava and K. Subha. Imperfect substitutes : the local political economy of informal finance and microfinance in rural China and India / Kellee S. Tsai -- Stratification and institutional exclusion in China and India : administrative means versus social barriers / Fei-Ling Wang -- Women and local power in India and China : revisiting the ghosts of Manu and Confucius / Bidyut Mohanty -- Gender, work and power in an Andhra village / M. Vanamala -- Democracy, good governance and economic development in rural China / David Zweig and Chung Siu Fung -- Grass-roots democracy : the working of panchayati raj institutions in Andhra Pradesh / G. Haragopal and G. Sudarshanam -- The environment, the family and local government among the Tajik people / Shengmin Yang -- The evolution and function of the kaxie system of the Lahu people in south-west China / Shaoying He -- Social change and the development of democracy in local governance in Tibet / Tanzen Lhundup. The party, the village committee and the monastery : functions and interactions of three institutions at the grass roots / Changjiang Yu -- Reconceptualising local democracy : reflections on democracy, power and resistance in the Indian and Chinese countryside / Manoranjan Mohanty and Mark Selden. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789352800520 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social Science<br/>Political participation -- China.  <br/>Political participation -- India.<br/>Comparative government.