International Journal of Political Science and Development
 

International Journal of Political Science and Development

Vol. 3(5), pp. 207–211, May, 2015.  

DOI: 10.14662/IJPSD2015.030

ISSN: 2360-784X

Research Paper

Democracy has now been reduce to the electoral politics and development has emerged as an apolitical domain of specialized knowledge which has been emasculating larger section of society in term of determining their course of living. This knowledge and expertise has been coercing people to follow and accept the prescribe model of development without any kind of reservations. The tragedy is that the democracy as a form of government and democratic theory has also been co-opted in this.

Keywords: Modernization, Coercive domain, Development visualized as an apolitical domain of specialized knowledge, Disaster, Democracy, liberal democracy, hegemony of experts, passive visualization of local community and financial viability.

 

Cite This Article As: Thakur S (2015). Dam, Development and Democracy; revisiting the Democratic governance in India. Inter. J. Polit. Sci. Develop. 3(5): 207-211
 

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