Rural Power Structure
Author : Atiur Rahman
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 14,14 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Local government
ISBN :
Author : Atiur Rahman
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 14,14 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Local government
ISBN :
Author : David Lewis
Publisher :
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Bangladesh
ISBN : 9789158681156
Author : Katherine J. Cramer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 022634925X
“An important contribution to the literature on contemporary American politics. Both methodologically and substantively, it breaks new ground.” —Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare When Scott Walker was elected Governor of Wisconsin, the state became the focus of debate about the appropriate role of government. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall, he was subsequently reelected. But why were the very people who would benefit from strong government services so vehemently against the idea of big government? With The Politics of Resentment, Katherine J. Cramer uncovers an oft-overlooked piece of the puzzle: rural political consciousness and the resentment of the “liberal elite.” Rural voters are distrustful that politicians will respect the distinct values of their communities and allocate a fair share of resources. What can look like disagreements about basic political principles are therefore actually rooted in something even more fundamental: who we are as people and how closely a candidate’s social identity matches our own. Taking a deep dive into Wisconsin’s political climate, Cramer illuminates the contours of rural consciousness, showing how place-based identities profoundly influence how people understand politics. The Politics of Resentment shows that rural resentment—no less than partisanship, race, or class—plays a major role in dividing America against itself.
Author : A. H. M. Zehadul Karim
Publisher : South Asia Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788185119854
This research has its ethnographic base in two adjacent villagers in the north-western part of Bangladesh. The villages Dhononjoypara and Gopalhati are examined in order to understand the changing leadership pattern in rural Bangladesh. The traditional leaders in a non-governmental organization is contrasted to the emerging leaders in newly-instituted government agencies. The study reveals a change in the institutions through which leaders can exert power due to government funded programmes and projects, but shows that the basic structure of the leadership remains unchanged. The educated descendants of the traditional leaders are the leaders in the new arena. The crucial importance of young sections of traditionally powerful families and the mechanisms that they have used for institutional change of power is highlighted in the book.
Author : Jane H. Adams
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807844793
Jane Adams focuses on the transformation of rural life in Union County, Illinois, as she explores the ways in which American farming has been experienced and understood in the twentieth century. Reconstructing the histories of seven farms, she places the
Author : Dayabati Roy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 18,85 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107042356
This book discusses the forms and dynamics of political processes in rural India with a special emphasis on West Bengal, the nation's fourth-most populous state. West Bengal's political distinction stems from its long legacy of a Left-led coalition government for more than thirty years and its land reform initiatives. The book closely looks at how people from different castes, religions, and genders represent themselves in local governments, political parties, and in the social movements in West Bengal. At the same time it addresses some important questions: Is there any new pattern of politics emerging at the margins? How does this pattern of politics correspond with the current discourse of governance? Using ethnographic techniques, it claims to chart new territories by not only examining how rural people see the state, but also conceiving the context by comparing the available theoretical frameworks put forward to explain the political dynamics of rural India.
Author : Prasenjit Duara
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 27,84 MB
Release : 1991-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804765588
In the early twentieth century, the Chinese state made strenuous efforts to broaden and deepen its authority over rural society. This book is an ambitious attempt to offer both a method and a framework for analyzing Chinese social history in the state-making era. The author constructs a prismatic view of village-level society that shows how marketing, kinship, water control, temple patronage, and other structures of human interaction overlapped to form what he calls the cultural nexus of power in local society. The author's concept of the cultural nexus and his tracing of how it was altered enables us for the first time to grapple with change at the village level in all its complexity. The author asserts that the growth of the state transformed and delegitimized the traditional cultural nexus during the Republican era, particularly in the realm of village leadership and finances. Thus, the expansion of state power was ultimately and paradoxically responsible for the revolution in China as it eroded the foundations of village life, leaving nothing in its place. The problems of state-making in China were different from those of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe; the Chinese experience heralds the process that would become increasingly common in the emergent states of the developing world under the very different circumstances of the twentieth century.
Author : A.R. Desai
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 1994
Category :
ISBN : 9788171541546
Author : Nicholas S. Hopkins
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789774244834
What emerges is a picture of a rural Egypt that is full of life, dramatically evolving, and treading a delicate line between progress and impoverishment.
Author : Alina Mungiu
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9639776785
This dramatic story of land and power from twentieth-century Eastern Europe is set in two extraordinary villages: a rebel village, where peasants fought the advent of Communism and became its first martyrs, and a model village turned forcibly into a town, Dictator Ceauşescu’s birthplace. The two villages capture among themselves nearly a century of dramatic transformation and social engineering, ending up with their charged heritage in the present European Union. "One of Romania’s foremost social critics, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi offers a valuable look at several decades of policy that marginalized that country’s rural population, from the 1918 land reform to the post-1989 property restitution. Illustrating her arguments with a close comparison of two contrasting villages, she describes the actions of a long series of “predatory elites,” from feudal landowners through the Communist Party through post-communist leaders, all of whom maintained the rural population’s dependency. A forceful concluding chapter shows that its prospects for improvement are scarcely better within the EU. Romania’s villagers have an eminent and spirited advocate in the author.”