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100			_aChandra A V
245			_aIndian politics in the twenty first century : Elecotal politics plus delibertive politics, the way forward
260			_aNew Delhi _bViva Books _c2017
300			_a141p _cvii
365			_b Rs. 595
505			_aContents: Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The complexities of Indian politics and difficulty in putting them into an existing framework -- 3. Understanding liberal philosophy -- 4. Locke, civil society and exclusion -- 5. The emergence of democracy from liberal philosophy -- 6. What is democracy really? -- 7. Can an Electoral Representative Democracy be a true democracy? -- 8. India and its political system as they appear today -- 9. Who starts agitations and why? -- 10. The mythology behind projecting plutocracies as democracies -- 11. Power and substance of democracy -- 12. Ineffective political leadership, collapsing public institutions and a nation whose future is in jeopardy -- 13. Corruption, civil society activism and other impedimenta of progress -- 14. Understanding policy paralysis -- 15. Elements of paralysis -- 16. The repercussions of policy paralysis within the organs of government -- 17. Caste and religion in the higher education system -- 18. Living in an illiberal and increasingly intolerant Indian society -- 19. Why deliberative politics and deliberative democracy are now a must -- 20. Deliberative politics is the way forward despite the existence of hurdles aplenty -- 21. For the betterment of Indian society and Indian politics education reform will be the key differentiator -- 22. The new cocktail of politics and academics: armed with deliberately created semantic confusion and making giants out of the understanding -- 23. Education in India is not only illiberal but also completely meaningless -- Time to reform the illiberal education system in India -- 25. Regional media and the problems they create in imparting education -- 26. Let us remind ourselves of the USSR and its spectacular failure again.
650			_a1. Politics & Government - Democracy - India
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