Harry W Blair
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 734345 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Harry W Blair |
| PRENOMES | Harry W |
| SOBRENOME | Blair |
| ASSINATURA | BLAIR H W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Bucknell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5317-9276 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 246 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Masked Writer
The Bangladesh Paradox
Bangladesh has experienced impressive socioeconomic development in recent decades even as its political system has taken an authoritarian turn. These contradictory economic and political trajectories constitute the “Bangladesh paradox.” Contrary to assumptions that the country was on track to becoming fully democratic, Bangladesh’s democratic “window” in the 1990s was followed by closure and the rise of a soft dictatorship. In the near term it se…
Identity, dignity and development as trajectory
Part I of this article traced the experience of India’s Bihar state as it shifted in the last decade of the twentieth century from a region dominated by landowning upper castes and plagued by entrenched poverty to one led by newly emergent middle castes. In a two-step process, these groups first attained a significant dignity and self-respect and then it became possible in the 2000s to turn to economic growth and improvement in living standards. …
Citizen Participation and Political Accountability for Public Service Delivery in India
A state’s accountability to its citizens for public service delivery constitutes a central component of the democratic polity. But how to assure this accountability? The answer lies in the linkage between citizens and some combination of elected political leaders and those they direct to provide the services. In India over recent decades, a host of mechanisms has emerged to provide that linkage, some of them quite potent. Building on the World Ba…
Identity, dignity and development as trajectory
Down into the last decades of the twentieth century, Bihar remained India's poorest state and one under the domination of its landowning upper castes – a well-nigh hopeless case for development in the view of most outside observers. But in the 1990s, a fresh leader gained a new dignity for the Backward castes, even as the state's poverty and corruption continued unabated. And then in the mid-2000s, another Backward leader was able to combine this…
Civil society and propoor initiatives in rural Bangladesh
Assessing civil society impact for democracy programmes
Democracy assistance programmes have always been notoriously difficult to measure in terms of outcome, but the need to show their impact (or lack of it) remains critical. This article represents part of a continuing endeavour to develop a tool for measuring civil society programme impact in the form of an advocacy scale encompassing democracy's critical components of participation, accountability and contestation. The scale is tested in the conte…
Jump-Starting Democracy
In countries emerging from authoritarianism into democracy, citizens have little preparation for participating in the new political dispensations they face. Adult civic education promises a way to jump-start the lifelong socialization experience that their counterparts in the long-established democracies enjoy. But do these brief crash-courses in democracy really have any impact? Recent surveys of civic education efforts sponsored by the United S…
Participation and Accountability at the Periphery
Everybody Loves a Good Drought
Often reduced to statistics, the misery of the 312 million who live below the poverty line in India, is often overlooked. These stories show how they manage, what sustains them and efforts made to help. The book pays attention to districts, and the issues it raises are universal in their relevance
Donors, Democratisation and Civil Society
Sahajanand on Agricultural Labour and the Rural Poor
Democracy, Equity and Common Property Resource Management in the Indian Subcontinent
This article addresses the relationship between democracy, equity and common property resource management in South Asia, both at the national and at the local level. Its substantive focus will be largely on forests, and its geographical concentration mostly on India, although other sectors (primarily water) and areas (Nepal and Bangladesh) will also be included. The article opens by looking at Garrett Hardin's (1968) three strategies to preserve …
The Experience of Poverty
Social Structures of Indian Villages
Introduction and Perspective Method of Study Relationships in the Family Baraka and Chhotaka/Nanh Relationships Mahajani Relationships Bataidari Relationships Janouri Relationships Jajmani Relationships Conclusion
The Unquiet Woods
Expanded Edition This new, expanded edition of The Unquiet Woods, Ramachandra Guha's pathbreaking study of peasant movements against commercial forestry, offers a new epilogue that brings the story of Himalayan social protest up-to-date, reflecting the Chipko movement's continuing influence in the wider world. A new appendix charts the progress of environmental history in India. The bibliography and index have been revised and updated
Agrarian Bengal
Local government and rural development in the bengal Sundarbans
Politics and Administration in Bangladesh
In Pursuit of Lakshmi
Reorienting development administration
Development By People: Citizen Construction of a Just World. By Guy Gran. New York: Praeger, UK distributor Holt‐Saunders, 1983. Pp.xxiv + 480. £34.50 and £9.95.ISBN 0 03 063294 3 and 063296 X. No Shortcuts to Progress: African Development Management in Perspective. By Goran Hyden. London: Heinemann, 1983. Pp.xv + 223. £12.50 and £4.95. ISBN 0 435 96303 1 and 96302 3. Development Projects as Policy Experiments: An Adaptive Approach to Development…
Participation, public policy, political economy and development in rural Bangladesh, 1958–85
A Quiet Violence
Peasant Mobility. The Odds of Life in Rural Bangladesh
Mrs Gandhi's Emergency, The Indian Elections of 1977, Pluralism and Marxism
Given the system of parliamentary democracy that India developed after its independence in 1947, it is understandable that pluralism came to be the major paradigm used to explain Indian politics. But just as the persistence of economic inequality was instrumental in calling pluralism into question as an appropriate model for explaining the American political system, so the continuation and even increase of inequality in India led social scientist…
Participation and Accountability at the Periphery
Participation, public policy, political economy and development in rural Bangladesh, 1958–85
Civil society and propoor initiatives in rural Bangladesh
Jump-Starting Democracy
In countries emerging from authoritarianism into democracy, citizens have little preparation for participating in the new political dispensations they face. Adult civic education promises a way to jump-start the lifelong socialization experience that their counterparts in the long-established democracies enjoy. But do these brief crash-courses in democracy really have any impact? Recent surveys of civic education efforts sponsored by the United S…
Rural development, class structure and bureaucracy in Bangladesh
The Bangladesh Paradox
Bangladesh has experienced impressive socioeconomic development in recent decades even as its political system has taken an authoritarian turn. These contradictory economic and political trajectories constitute the “Bangladesh paradox.” Contrary to assumptions that the country was on track to becoming fully democratic, Bangladesh’s democratic “window” in the 1990s was followed by closure and the rise of a soft dictatorship. In the near term it se…
Democracy, Equity and Common Property Resource Management in the Indian Subcontinent
This article addresses the relationship between democracy, equity and common property resource management in South Asia, both at the national and at the local level. Its substantive focus will be largely on forests, and its geographical concentration mostly on India, although other sectors (primarily water) and areas (Nepal and Bangladesh) will also be included. The article opens by looking at Garrett Hardin's (1968) three strategies to preserve …
Ethnicity and Democratic Politics in India
Students of comparative development have found the Indian caste system of great interest as a social structure of salience in the modernization process. Indeed, it has served as an institution of upward social mobility, political mobilization and participation, and interest aggregation in recent decades. It has been suggested that, in its mobilizing role, caste works as a medium for transmitting the concepts and practices of democratic politics f…
Minority Electoral Politics in a North Indian State
Frequent elections and a long tradition of census taking in India should combine to provide excellent scope for aggregate data analysis, but so far they have not, largely because the electoral constituencies and the census tracts do not match. A number of ways have been devised to surmount the problem, none of them very satisfactory. This paper offers a new solution in the form of isoplethic mapping, a method that avoids the shortcomings of other…
Mrs Gandhi's Emergency, The Indian Elections of 1977, Pluralism and Marxism
Given the system of parliamentary democracy that India developed after its independence in 1947, it is understandable that pluralism came to be the major paradigm used to explain Indian politics. But just as the persistence of economic inequality was instrumental in calling pluralism into question as an appropriate model for explaining the American political system, so the continuation and even increase of inequality in India led social scientist…
Citizen Participation and Political Accountability for Public Service Delivery in India
A state’s accountability to its citizens for public service delivery constitutes a central component of the democratic polity. But how to assure this accountability? The answer lies in the linkage between citizens and some combination of elected political leaders and those they direct to provide the services. In India over recent decades, a host of mechanisms has emerged to provide that linkage, some of them quite potent. Building on the World Ba…
Assessing civil society impact for democracy programmes
Democracy assistance programmes have always been notoriously difficult to measure in terms of outcome, but the need to show their impact (or lack of it) remains critical. This article represents part of a continuing endeavour to develop a tool for measuring civil society programme impact in the form of an advocacy scale encompassing democracy's critical components of participation, accountability and contestation. The scale is tested in the conte…
Local government and rural development in the bengal Sundarbans
"The Green Revolution and "Economic Man
ONE OF THE GREAT controversies in the literature of development has revolved around the issue of rationality in the peasant farmer. Is he basically an man, or is there substantial truth to the image of nonWestern man as non-materialistic and other-worldly? It would appear that the in much of the underdeveloped world today has resolved this debate, at least in large measure, in favor of man. At the same time a similar though rather ill-defined arg…
Identity, dignity and development as trajectory
Part I of this article traced the experience of India’s Bihar state as it shifted in the last decade of the twentieth century from a region dominated by landowning upper castes and plagued by entrenched poverty to one led by newly emergent middle castes. In a two-step process, these groups first attained a significant dignity and self-respect and then it became possible in the 2000s to turn to economic growth and improvement in living standards. …
Identity, dignity and development as trajectory
Down into the last decades of the twentieth century, Bihar remained India's poorest state and one under the domination of its landowning upper castes – a well-nigh hopeless case for development in the view of most outside observers. But in the 1990s, a fresh leader gained a new dignity for the Backward castes, even as the state's poverty and corruption continued unabated. And then in the mid-2000s, another Backward leader was able to combine this…
Fourth General Election in India
"The Green Revolution and "Economic Man
ONE OF THE GREAT controversies in the literature of development has revolved around the issue of rationality in the peasant farmer. Is he basically an man, or is there substantial truth to the image of nonWestern man as non-materialistic and other-worldly? It would appear that the in much of the underdeveloped world today has resolved this debate, at least in large measure, in favor of man. At the same time a similar though rather ill-defined arg…
Ethnicity and Democratic Politics in India
Students of comparative development have found the Indian caste system of great interest as a social structure of salience in the modernization process. Indeed, it has served as an institution of upward social mobility, political mobilization and participation, and interest aggregation in recent decades. It has been suggested that, in its mobilizing role, caste works as a medium for transmitting the concepts and practices of democratic politics f…
Evaluation of Land Reforms
Minority Electoral Politics in a North Indian State
Frequent elections and a long tradition of census taking in India should combine to provide excellent scope for aggregate data analysis, but so far they have not, largely because the electoral constituencies and the census tracts do not match. A number of ways have been devised to surmount the problem, none of them very satisfactory. This paper offers a new solution in the form of isoplethic mapping, a method that avoids the shortcomings of other…
Primary and secondary characteristics in peasant politics at the micro-level in an Indian constituency
The Political Economy of Agrarian Change. An Essay on Green Revolution
Political Ideas and Movements in India
Rural development, class structure and bureaucracy in Bangladesh
Agricultural Development in China and India. A Comparative Study
The American Science of Indian Politics
Mrs Gandhi's Emergency, The Indian Elections of 1977, Pluralism and Marxism
Given the system of parliamentary democracy that India developed after its independence in 1947, it is understandable that pluralism came to be the major paradigm used to explain Indian politics. But just as the persistence of economic inequality was instrumental in calling pluralism into question as an appropriate model for explaining the American political system, so the continuation and even increase of inequality in India led social scientist…
Peasant Mobility. The Odds of Life in Rural Bangladesh
Reorienting development administration
Development By People: Citizen Construction of a Just World. By Guy Gran. New York: Praeger, UK distributor Holt‐Saunders, 1983. Pp.xxiv + 480. £34.50 and £9.95.ISBN 0 03 063294 3 and 063296 X. No Shortcuts to Progress: African Development Management in Perspective. By Goran Hyden. London: Heinemann, 1983. Pp.xv + 223. £12.50 and £4.95. ISBN 0 435 96303 1 and 96302 3. Development Projects as Policy Experiments: An Adaptive Approach to Development…
Participation, public policy, political economy and development in rural Bangladesh, 1958–85
A Quiet Violence
In Pursuit of Lakshmi
Local government and rural development in the bengal Sundarbans
Politics and Administration in Bangladesh
Agrarian Bengal
The Unquiet Woods
Expanded Edition This new, expanded edition of The Unquiet Woods, Ramachandra Guha's pathbreaking study of peasant movements against commercial forestry, offers a new epilogue that brings the story of Himalayan social protest up-to-date, reflecting the Chipko movement's continuing influence in the wider world. A new appendix charts the progress of environmental history in India. The bibliography and index have been revised and updated
Social Structures of Indian Villages
Introduction and Perspective Method of Study Relationships in the Family Baraka and Chhotaka/Nanh Relationships Mahajani Relationships Bataidari Relationships Janouri Relationships Jajmani Relationships Conclusion
Democracy, Equity and Common Property Resource Management in the Indian Subcontinent
This article addresses the relationship between democracy, equity and common property resource management in South Asia, both at the national and at the local level. Its substantive focus will be largely on forests, and its geographical concentration mostly on India, although other sectors (primarily water) and areas (Nepal and Bangladesh) will also be included. The article opens by looking at Garrett Hardin's (1968) three strategies to preserve …
The Experience of Poverty
Donors, Democratisation and Civil Society
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