The Roots of Participatory Democracy: Democratic Communists in South Africa and Kerala, India

✍ Scribed by Michelle Williams (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 232
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Introduction: Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Generative Politics....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-17
Communist Renewal and Ideological Convergence....Pages 19-33
The Counter-Hegemonic Politics of the CPI(M)....Pages 35-62
The Hegemonic Politics of the SACP....Pages 63-88
Front Matter....Pages 89-92
Party Capacities in Historical Perspective....Pages 93-117
Organizational Faultlines....Pages 119-130
Party and Class under Electoral Politics....Pages 131-149
Conclusion....Pages 151-156
Back Matter....Pages 157-215

✦ Subjects

African Politics; Asian Politics; Political Theory; Political Philosophy; Political History; Political Science

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