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Title: Democracy's Resilience: Tradition, Modernity, And Hybridity in India (Features)
Author : Harvard International Review
Release Date : January 01, 2011
Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 680 KB

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Indian democracy is puzzling. Many democracy advocates and human rights activists around the world--and in India itself--find it hard to reconcile the country's democratic achievements with its tragic failures. India's democratic success makes the country appear deviant when contrasted to the regularity with which post-colonial democracies fail. At the same time, India's failures undermine the country's claim to be the world's largest democracy. With such contradictory features, India can be viewed as a counter-factual challenge to general models of democratic transition and consolidation. What makes Indian democracy work, and why does it fail sometimes? What significance does India's counter-factual democracy hold for general theories of democracy transition and consolidation? The Context of a Counter-Factual Democracy