This book provides a comprehensive examination of value changes of Chinese citizens, especially the younger generation, and how the Chinese authorities take efforts to adapt to such changes and refine its social control mechanisms.
This pivot chronicles the life of Charles McCarthy, a San Francisco native and Jesuit missionary to China, and tells the unique and compelling story of a young man who experienced confinement under the Japanese occupation, followed shortly by imprisonment by the Chinese Communists in the 1950's.
As the epicenter of Christianity has shifted towards Africa in recent decades, Pentecostalism has emerged as a particularly vibrant presence on the continent.
This book seeks to assess the state-of-the-art of participatory rural appraisal (PRA) among the NGOs in Tamil Nadu, with particular focus on efficacy of participatory methods.
This book presents the efforts taken by Gandhigram Rural Institute to prepare the leaders of the grassroots institutions to perform their assigned roles and responsibilities by building up the capacity of the leaders.
This study, undertaken under the aegis of Rajiv Gandhi Chair for Panchayati Raj Studies, Gandhigram Rural Institute, Gandhigram, seeks to evaluate the performance and efficiency of Gram Sabha in Tamil Nadu, in the light of 73rd Amendment to the Constitution of India.
No other socio-political programme launched by the Government in Independent India had generated so much enthusiasm and participation of the people as the Panchayati Raj Institutions.
The main focus of the bibliographical references culled from various sources in the present CICIL publication is on Government and politics in India bearing particular reference to role, achievements and failures of Rajiv Gandhi during his five years as Prime Minister and the period when he was out of the office, tracing the contemporary scenario from his childhood.
This book provides a ground breaking interdisciplinary study of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, focusing on the post 1949 Civil War in China through to the present day, and discusses the role played by the Catholic Church in contemporary Taiwanese society.
Political science is a late arrival in terms of social sciences However, the discipline has a clear set of antecedents such as moral philosophy, political philosophy, political economy, history, and other fields concerned with normative determinations of what ought to be and with deducing the characteristics and functions of the ideal state.
Panchayati Raj, which has become the third tier of governance with the Constitution (Seventy-third Amendment) Act, is of far-reaching significance for decentralised governance in India.
Rapid urbanisation in its trail brings a host of problems such as housing for living, provision of water supply, health services and other social amenities.
An International Experts Group Meeting on Decentralised Planning was held at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, from 11th to 13th June 1990.
This book views land reforms from a historical perspective It argues that the success or failure of land reforms can only be judged by the role the reforms play in the historical development of the agrarian structure.
This study, conducted on behalf of the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, makes a critical evaluation and comparative analysis of the implementation of the provisions of the Extension Act 1996 and Conformity State Panchayat Acts, with special reference to the powers of Gram Sabha.
West Bengal Panchayat Elections 1993: A Study in Participation is based on field surveys in West Bengal, during and after the May 1993 Panchayat elections.
This collection of sixteen articles and reports, drawn from the action projects carried out by the Rajiv Gandhi Chair for Panchayati Raj Studies, analyzes the raminifications and dimensions of decentralization of powers in Tamil Nadu, in the light of the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act.
This book provides an overview of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) to assist readers in developing a more complete understanding of P/CVE and the issues of radicalisation, disengagement and rehabilitation.
This book describes the Islamisation process that has unfolded in Malaysia over the last fifty years and provides feedback from in-depth interviews with 100 individuals from Malaysia's "e;educated classes"e;, or the "e;elite"e;, regarding their reactions to the changes that have accompanied Islamisation and how they feel it has impacted them.
The evolution of China's intellectual landscape, especially the battles among different influential social and political ideas, sheds light on its history.
"Bauernaufstände in Deutschland und ihre Auswirkungen auf Europa"Entdecken Sie ein faszinierendes Kapitel der europäischen Geschichte, das die Grundlagen unserer modernen Gesellschaft nachhaltig geprägt hat.
This book engages the diverse meanings and interpretations of Islamic and Western law which have affected people and societies across the globe, past and present, in correlation to the epistemological groundings of those meanings and interpretations.
This book sheds light on religiously motivated extremism and violence in South Asia, a phenomenon which ostensibly poses critical and unique challenges to the peace, security and governance not only of the region, but also of the world at large.
