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Water, democracy and neoliberalism in India : the power to reform / / Vicky Walters



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Autore: Walters Vicky Visualizza persona
Titolo: Water, democracy and neoliberalism in India : the power to reform / / Vicky Walters Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
Disciplina: 333.9100954
Soggetto topico: Water resources development - India
Democracy - India
Neoliberalism - India
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. Getting (in)to good governance -- 3. Karnataka : the state of a determined path -- 4. Demonstrating development -- 5. Can we have a civil-consumer slum, please. -- 6. Of operational significance -- 7. Conclusion : the power to reform.
Sommario/riassunto: Since the early 1990s, the achievement of 'good governance' has been a dominant discourse in the pursuit of social and economic development. This book presents a critical challenge to the contemporary development paradigm of good governance.Based on original ethnographic fieldwork on urban water governance reforms in south India (Karnataka), the book examines the two propositions that underlie the current good governance debate. The first refers to a claim that good governance is both democratic and pro-market. The second to the claim that commercially-oriented water services, whether private
Titolo autorizzato: Water, democracy and neoliberalism in India  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-135-04092-3
0-203-78721-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808773503321
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Serie: Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; ; 70.