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

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 …

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

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 …

traditionally the household financial managers. This culture was strongly altered by the British in the mid-19th century through …-collected data of 650 individuals from the matrilineal state of Meghalaya, India, and exploring household's distance to the …

syndrome of culturally embedded democracy in rich countries only. Using these climato-economic niches of culture, we then …In a 104-nation study we first demonstrate that cultural self-expression, individualism and democracy languish in poor … estimate how unarrested global warming in conjunction with unaltered economic growth would affect democratic culture in 138 …

This paper argues that the relationship between democracy and the separation of religion and state needs to be … reexamined. Previous studies have misconceptualized the impact a lack of religion-state separation can have on democracy, or have …-state separation that impacts democracy can be identified. This focus addresses the questions of what indicators best conceptualize …

democracy of a handful of variables. It shows that poverty, Communism and the Muslim culture are the main barriers to democracy …This study first uses a set of graphs and tables to present the pattern of democracy in the world, using the Gastil …