House of the people : parliament and the making of Indian democracy / Ronojoy Sen.

By: Sen, Ronojoy [author].

Material type: Text

Text Language of document:EnglishPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2022]Description: xiii, 311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781009180252.Subject(s): Legislative bodies -- India -- History | Democracy -- India -- History | India -- Politics and government -- 1947-DDC classification: 328.54

Contents:

The road to parliamentary democracy : the constituent assembly and its prehistory -- Protean institution : the changing composition of parliament -- 'Please take your seat!' disruptions in parliament -- Inside out : the parliamentary committee system -- Corruption, criminality and immunity.

Summary: "While there is overwhelming support for democracy in India and voter turnout is higher than in many Western democracies, there are low levels of trust in political parties and elected representatives. House of the People is an attempt to look beyond Indian elections, which have increasingly occupied analysts and commentators. The focus is the Lok Sabha (the House of the People or the Lower House), currently comprising 543 members directly elected for five years by potentially 800-million-plus voters in 2019. There are two questions that the book seeks to answer: Is the Indian parliament, which has the unenviable task of representing an incredibly diverse nation of a billion-plus people, working, if not in an exemplary manner, then at least reasonably well, to articulate the diverse demands of the electorate and translate them into legislation and policy? And to what extent has the practice of Indian democracy transformed the institution of parliament, which was adopted from the British, and its functioning?"-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Central Library Social Science	Social Science Collections	328.54 Se554 Ho (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		271548

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"While there is overwhelming support for democracy in India and voter turnout is higher than in many Western democracies, there are low levels of trust in political parties and elected representatives. House of the People is an attempt to look beyond Indian elections, which have increasingly occupied analysts and commentators. The focus is the Lok Sabha (the House of the People or the Lower House), currently comprising 543 members directly elected for five years by potentially 800-million-plus voters in 2019. There are two questions that the book seeks to answer: Is the Indian parliament, which has the unenviable task of representing an incredibly diverse nation of a billion-plus people, working, if not in an exemplary manner, then at least reasonably well, to articulate the diverse demands of the electorate and translate them into legislation and policy? And to what extent has the practice of Indian democracy transformed the institution of parliament, which was adopted from the British, and its functioning?"-- Provided by publisher.

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