Democracy and Its Institutions
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ISBN:
9780199471676
Publication date:
25/11/2016
Paperback
224 pages
216x140mm
Price: 430.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199471676
Publication date:
25/11/2016
Paperback
224 pages
Part of Oxford India Paperbacks
André Béteille
This book is the first of its kind-highlighting the interface between gender and medicine in colonial India,Based upon hitherto unused primary sources,Sheds light upon pre-colonial indigenous medical therapies and the existence of female medical practitioners
Rights: World Rights
André Béteille
Description
Democracy rests on a delicate balance between two principles that may be called the rule of numbers and the rule of law. To ensure that the rule of law is not overwhelmed by the weight of numbers, democracy requires institutions. Examining democracy from an institutional perspective, this book studies such institutions as the Parliament, the courts of justice, and the systems of political parties, and brings out the contradictions between the ideals of democracy-such as equality and liberty-and the actual operation of government and politics. It introduces the reader to the distinction between law and custom, and between matters of right and matters of trust.
About the Author
André Béteille, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Delhi
André Béteille, FBA, is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Delhi and National Research Professor.
André Béteille
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1:The Institutions of Democracy
2:Government and Opposition
3:Civil Society and the State
4:Constitutional Morality
5:Can Rights Undermine Trust? How Institutions Work and Why They Fail
6:Caste and the Citizen
7:Pluralism and Liberalism
8:Law and Custom
9:Sociology and Ideology
Index
André Béteille
Description
Democracy rests on a delicate balance between two principles that may be called the rule of numbers and the rule of law. To ensure that the rule of law is not overwhelmed by the weight of numbers, democracy requires institutions. Examining democracy from an institutional perspective, this book studies such institutions as the Parliament, the courts of justice, and the systems of political parties, and brings out the contradictions between the ideals of democracy-such as equality and liberty-and the actual operation of government and politics. It introduces the reader to the distinction between law and custom, and between matters of right and matters of trust.
About the Author
André Béteille, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Delhi
André Béteille, FBA, is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Delhi and National Research Professor.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1:The Institutions of Democracy
2:Government and Opposition
3:Civil Society and the State
4:Constitutional Morality
5:Can Rights Undermine Trust? How Institutions Work and Why They Fail
6:Caste and the Citizen
7:Pluralism and Liberalism
8:Law and Custom
9:Sociology and Ideology
Index
Marilyn Fernandez
Who We Are and How We Got Here
David Reich
Townsend Middleton, Sara Shneiderman
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Beyond Hybridity and Fundamentalism
Tabassum Ruhi Khan
Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Srila Roy
David N. Gellner, Sondra L. Hausner
Teresa Platz Robinson
Saurabh Dube
