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Left Front Government, Rural Development and Governance in India’s West Bengal: Lessons from a New Experiment

Asian Review of Public Administration

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Title Left Front Government, Rural Development and Governance in India’s West Bengal: Lessons from a New Experiment
 
Creator Datta, Prabhat; Institute of Development Studies Kolkata
 
Subject public administration
public administration
 
Description Borne out of the prevailing socio-economic context in 20th century Indiaand the growing disenchantment in electoral politics by the middle class,the Left Front Government (LFG) in West Bengal emerged to become oneof the longest-surviving leftist regimes in the world, spanning over threedecades in existence. The landless and marginalized, which became thefocus of LFG for its rural development policies, initially constituted astrong electoral base. However, support for the LFG waned in recentyears, following crises in leadership at the local level and internalweaknesses in the democratic processes and institutions that LFGestablished in the villages. Using the liberalist pluralist framework ofdemocratic decentralization as its analytic lens, this article discusses thechallenges faced by the LFG, and how social, political, and institutionalfactors eventually led to its decline in the recent years.
 
Publisher Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (EROPA)
 
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Date 2017-10-10
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journals.sfu.ca/arpa/index.php/arpa/article/view/64
 
Source Asian Review of Public Administration; Vol 27, No 1-2 (2016): Challenges from New Approaches to Governance; 83-98
2094-408X
2094-408X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journals.sfu.ca/arpa/index.php/arpa/article/view/64/57
 
Coverage Asia Pacific region
21st century
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Rights Copyright (c) 2017 Prabhat Datta
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