Rethinking Democracy

<strong>Rethinking Democracy</strong> provides a unique insight into Indias experience as theworlds largest democracy. Covering democratic theory the state civi... » 

Rethinking Democracy provides a unique insight into Indias experience as theworlds largest democracy. Covering democratic theory the state civilsociety participation and the search for global justice leading politicaltheorist Rajni Kothari evaluates what this experience means for the very ideaof democracy.The culmination of Rajni Kotharis decades of political involvement this bookpowerfully demonstrates that we are at a juncture where democracy has failedon a local and a global level. The promise of human emancipation has not beendelivered and democratic ideals of justice and equality have failed to defeatthe aggressive logic of capitalism. «