Understanding peoples' participation in urban local government in West Bengal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3887465 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maumita Das (Hospital Damas, corresponding author), Soumyadip Chattopadhyay (0000-0002-7373-1408) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 68-79 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development in Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09614524.2019.1630368 |
| OpenAlex | W2952095252 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 8 |
In light of the potential of the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act to reinforce participatory practices in Indian cities, this paper, based on field observation from two municipalities of West Bengal, examines the nature of peoples’ participation and identifies the socio-economic factors determining effective participation. It finds that in West Bengal, municipalities’ failures to set up ward committees, the highly partisan nature of the ward committee, and non-occurrence of ward committee meetings made the general population disinterested in utilising these available democratic forum. Elected representatives became the only link between citizens and the municipal administration, and their representation did not necessarily result in effective participation
BENGAL · Citizen journalism · Constitutional amendment · Democracy · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Local government · Political science · Politics · Population · Socioeconomics · Sociology · West bengal · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Administration · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance
| Citations per year | 1.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |