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CONTEMPORARY DEBATES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Public administration is reeling under complex challenges and pressures in the face of the changing trends in liberalization, privatization and globalization. As a pertinent area of social sciences, it is in search of a new identity in the form of theoretical bases, conceptual clarity and contextual applicability. The development of the discipline is characterized by failed, semi-developed and recycled narratives, which are unable to provide any well-defined epistemological parameters. Whatever one finds in the form of conceptual and applied growth in public administration, especially pertaining to the Third World, appears to be borrowed, imitated and implemented out of context. The discipli...
GENDER SIEVE
This book is an attempt to understand the conditions of the urban women workforce in India, how it varies across regions and how the determinants of women’s work influence her varying responses in different regions and urban spatial scales. A very important sub-theme that is running throughout the book is to examine the linkages and the nature of relationships between urban women’s workforce and city size changes, especially in the megacities of India. Content · Women Workers in Urban India: An Introduction · Kaleidoscopic Connections of Women’s Workforce in Urban India, Despite Cultural Monolith · Effect of Entrenched Cultural Supremacy on Women’s Workforce: a Case Study of Uttar Pradesh · Cultural Drivers of Regional Differences in Indian Workforce · Urban Centre Hierarchy and Diverging Workforce trends · Megalopolitan Employment and Persistence of Gender Divides · Urban Women Workforce in Contemporary India: Conclusive Suggestions and Future Implications
From Oppression to Assertion
The book explores the experiences, impact and responses of women in village panchayats in India after a Constitutional Amendment in 1992 made it mandatory to reserve one-third positions for women. Based on extensive field research with interviews of 1,200 panchayat representatives and community members in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh (states usually seen as low on social and gender indicators), the book documents awareness, motivation, perceptions, and participation levels of women elected in the first election following the Amendment, with a follow-up survey of the same panchayats in the next two elections. This work maps the empowering impact on women’s self, the attitudes...
Public Governance and Decentralisation
The Highly Useful Two Volume Set Recommended For Policy Planners, Practitioners, Students Of Governance And Development And General Readers Alike.
Women empowerment in Garhwal Himalayas
Papers presented at the National Seminar on Women Empowerment in Garhwal Himalayas : Constraints and Prospects, held at Garhwal during 19-20 November 2007.
Dynamics of New Panchayati Raj System in India: Capacity building
Contributed articles.
