This paper critically examines the fears of India's cultural nationalists that globalisation will undermine ancient and …

from Argentina, Bangladesh, India, Iran, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan and Sudan show how women's movements have had a … historical role to play in pushing for democratic reforms, as well as being key to defending democracy today. …

This paper examines the effect of direct elections in the village councils in Maharashtra, India, on economic …

comparison of reform period macroeconomic policy choices and outcomes, in China and India. One decade lagged Indian reform in the … outperform India in its first post reform decade. We find political structure did lead to specific inefficiencies in …

most important 20th-century theorists of radical democracy. We outline Castoriadis's thoughts on autonomy, the social …-historical nature of Being, and creation-key elements that inform his model of democratic culture. We then develop a Castoriadian … critique of culture produced by capitalist institutions. By also drawing on the political economic thought of Thorstein Veblen …

This paper intends to take a step towards improving our understanding of how culture affects economic development …

a recent survey of the literature on the relationship between culture, institutions, and economic growth. On the one … hand, part of the literature indicates that there is a one-way causality from culture to institutions and economic … growth and culture. However, a growing body of empirical research demonstrates that culture and institutions interact in two …