Civil society versus corruption

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 55-69

  Jenkins, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34248395154     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2007.0026     Document Type: Review

References (22)

1. Christophe Jaffrelot, India's Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India (London: Hurst, 2003).
2. Kanchan Chandra, Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage and Ethnic Head Counts in India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
3. Pratap Bhanu Mehta, The Burden of Democracy (New Delhi: Penguin, 2003).
4. Larry Diamond, "Advancing Democratic Governance: A Global Perspective on the Status of Democracy and Directions for International Assistance," unpubl. ms., 4, at www.stanford.edu/ldiamond/papers/ advancing_democ_%20governance.pdf.
5. Diamond, "Advancing Democratic Governance," 13.
6. After Sanjay's death, Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi's other son and ultimately her successor, was thrust into the limelight along with his Italian-born wife Sonia. Rajiv was murdered in 1991; Sonia Gandhi is currently leader of the Congress party, which heads the United Progressive Alliance coalition government that took power following the 2004 general election.
7. "Question of Income and Expenditure," 3 June 1957, republished in Ram Manohar Lohia, Rs. 25,000 a Day (Hyderabad: Navahind, 1963), 17.
8. Rob Jenkins and Anne Marie Goetz, "Accounts and Accountability. Theoretical Implications of the Right-to-information Movement in India," Third World Quarterly 20 (June 1999): 603-22.
9. Key conceptual distinctions are explained in Andreas Schedler, "Conceptualizing Accountability," in Andreas Schedler, Larry Diamond, and Marc F. Plattner, eds., The Self-Restraining State: Power and Accountability in New Democracies (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1999).
10. Anne Marie Goetz and Rob Jenkins, Reinventing Accountability: Making Democracy Work for Human Development (New York: Macmillan/Palgrave, 2005).
11. The BVJA is analyzed in Rob Jenkins, "In Varying States of Decay: The Politics of Anticorruption in Maharashtra and Rajasthan," in Rob Jenkins, ed., Regional Reflections: Comparing Politics Across India's States (Oxford University Press, 2004), 219-52.
12. Mushtaq Khan, "Corruption and Governance in Early Capitalism: World Bank Strategies and Their Limitations," in J.R. Pincus and J.A. Winters, eds., Reinventing the World Bank (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002), 164-84.
13. The locus classicus is Barrington Moore, Jr., Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (Boston: Beacon, 1966).
14. Other impediments are detailed in Rob Jenkins and Anne Marie Goetz, "Constraints on Civil Society's Capacity to Curb Corruption: Lessons from the Indian Experience," IDS Bulletin 29 (October 1999): 39-49.
15. See the article by Prakash Karat of the Communist Party of India-Marxist: "Action Groups/Voluntary Organizations: A Factor in Imperialist Strategy," The Marxist 2 (April-June 1984): 51-63.
16. This description is positioned prominently in the "About Us" section of the organization's website, at www.parivartan.com.
17. Neera Chandhoke, The Conceits of Civil Society (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003), 71.
18. Rob Jenkins and Anne Marie Goetz, "Civil Society Engagement and India's Public Distribution System: Lessons from the Rationing Kruti Samiti in Mumbai," Consultation Paper for the World Bank, World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for Poor People (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2003).
19. George Cheriyan, "Enforcing Right to Food in India: Bottlenecks in Delivering the Expected Outcome - Focusing on Corruption and the Resultant Failure of Various Welfare Schemes," paper presented at the Second International Workshop of the ICSSR-WIDER/UNV Joint Project on Food Security, Helsinki, Finland, 12-14 October 2005.
20. See Jean Dreze, "Right to Food: From the Court to the Streets," at www.right tofoodindia.org.
21. Much of this interpretation emerged in the author's interview with N.C. Saxena, court-appointed food commissioner, New Delhi, 14 December 2004.
22. Letter from the activist concerned to the local council's chief administrative officer, 8 April 1999. Names withheld to preserve confidentiality.