Naslov
Implementation of liberal democracy in India

Autori
Čičak-Chand, Ružica

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
International Conference "Exporting Liberalism &#8211 ; New Polities and Old Democracies"

Mjesto i datum
Dubrovnik, Hrvatska, 26.04.2004. - 28.04.2004

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
India; traditional culture; elections; functioning of democracy; economic liberalization; class and caste

Sažetak
India began her independent democratic career over fifty years ago with universal adult franchise, legal equality between the sexes, minority protection acts and positive discrimination laws designed to help the historically deprivileged. The last was uniquely Indian ; the rest India inhereted, borrowed, from liberal democracy of the West. In the fifty years three broad phases of democratic polities can be distinguished: the consolidation of the state from late 1940s to the late 1960s ; the centralizing trends in governmental power in the 1970s and 1980s ; the third phase opened in the 1990s with the politics of the regional states gaining new importance. In short, over a dozen general elections and over hundred state elections since independence have produced a high degree of politization among all segments of population, wherein the poor have more faith than the privileged in democracy and in importance of their vote.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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