Deepening democracy : comparative perspectives on decentralisation, co-operativism and self-managed development

Experiments in deepening democracy through decentralized governance : an overview / Joseph Tharamangalam and Jos Chathukulam -- Embedded democracy / Patrick Heller -- Socialist construction and commoning / Cliff DuRand -- Thinking beyond capitalism / Errol Sharpe -- COVID-19 context in India and working towards alternative paradigms / M.A. Oommen -- Citizenship and social suffering in the context of COVID-19 / P. Sanal Mohan -- Democracy and capitalism in the time of COVID-19 / Henry Veltmeyer -- The roles of NGOs, state and for-profit agencies in improving the maternal and child sector in Bangladesh : towards a division of labour / Ahmed Tareq Rashid -- Governance, welfare-based development and COVID-19 : Sweden and Kerala in comparative perspective / Olle Tornquist -- The cure remains a symptom : sub-national government, democracy and development in South Africa / Steven Friedman -- Reorienting people's planning in Kerala / K.N. Harilal -- The capacity conundrum in decentralization and local governance : how Kerala tackles it / Joy Elamon and Sukanya K.U. -- Employment creation at a decentralized level through the construction of niche structures and promotion of self-organization / Sunil Ray -- From agricultural co-operatives to farmer producing companies : analysing the transition of co-operativism in India / K. Gireesan -- Co-operativism to manage COVID-19 / Abhilash Babu and Sabu Thomas -- Cuba's experiments with cooperativsm and solidarity economies : a move towards 21st century socialism / Joseph Tharamangalam -- Lessons and non -lessons / Joseph Tharamangalam and Jos Chathukulam.