Title : Crafting Democracy and Good Governance in Local Arenas: Theory, Dilemmas, and their Resolution through the Experiments in Madhya Pradesh, India
Working Paper No : 60 (series 1)
Author(s) : Manoj Srivastava
Date : April 2005
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Abstract: This paper
approaches a case of a recent ambitious agenda for the deepening
of democracy and good governance, undertaken in the Indian state
of Madhya Pradesh (MP). The paper delineates a possible theory
of the processes that might be driving the directionality and
convergence of attempted solutions of dilemmas the world over;
and explores its appeal and robustness through applying it to
the case of MP. At the same time, it critically engages with
theories of institutional change by subjecting the MP study to
an institutional analysis; and demonstrates that unless the
interplay of institutions with ideas and agency is seriously and
systemically considered, institutional analysis on its own may
not help to unravel the black box of power and capture,
essential also to understand the theory of the inner wave and
its agenda.