"How do you see India? Fuelled by a surge of migration to cities, the country's growth appears to be defined by urbanisation and by its growing, prosperous middle class. It is also defined by progressive and liberal young Indians, who vote beyond the constraints of identity, and paradoxically,...

1. Introduction -- 2. Foucault : the flexible critique of welfare -- 3. Goffman : interaction and identity negotiations -- 4. Bourdieu : field, symbolic violence and domination -- 5. Luhmann : welfare in communicative systems -- 6. Neo-institutional theory : myths and legitimacy -- 7. Risk...

Modern developed nations are rich and politically stable in part because their citizens are free to form organizations and have access to the relevant legal resources. Yet in spite of the advantages of open access to civil organizations, it is estimated that eighty percent of people live in...