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This volume takes a critical look at the popular representations of the concept of public and private in the context of democracy. Most analyses of state and citizenship in contemporary times invoke the idea of public and private. Though these are amongst the most commonly used terms in social science discourses, there exists considerable ambiguity about what each of these concepts denotes. Most often they are presented as discrete, if not separate, spheres of life and activity locked in an antagonistic relationship.
The essays in this volume take a critical look at these diverse representations of public and private, the manner in which they reinforce each other and collectively impact democracy. In the era of globalization, the relationship between public and private is being steadily redefined. The book reflects upon these changes and the implications they have for democratic citizenship.
Privatization as Reform: Liberalization and Public Sector Enterprises in India
Privatization as Reform: Liberalization and Public Sector Enterprises in India
India is currently experiencing a pronounced shift in state form and governing practices. Since 1991, when the economic reforms began to be unfolded, it came to be widely recognized among both its critics and supporters, that the central planning model and the dominant role that the state had played in the economy and society cannot survive the combined onslaught of economic crises and the processes of globalization. Even in western countries, the Keynesian welfare state is under pressure and is giving way to a restructuring of the economic and political system. The New Right is leading the intellectual attack on the state and the public sector ...
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