Bulletin n. 1/2008
May 2008
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Tawa Lama-Rewal Stéphanie
    La démocratie locale dans les métropoles indiennes. Les associations de résidents à New Delhi
    in Transcontinentales , numero 4, "Amérique latine", juin ,  2007 ,  131-144
    The Indian decentralization policy launched in the mid-nineties has borne mitigated results. The democratic renewal that it heralded seems largely limited to the renewal of local political personnel through electoral quotas (for women, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes). Yet in many Indian megacities today, one can observe an increasing involvement of residents in the management of local affairs, mainly through neighbourhood associations that invoke participative democracy and claim to be the spokespeople of urban citizenship. This paper identifies four factors that explain the new legitimacy of these associations as players in urban governance; and it concludes with consideration of the relationship, informed by class categories, between the participative and representative aspects of local democracy in India.
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