James Manor

Job Title

Professor

Organization

Institute for Commonwealth Studies

Country

UK (american citizen)

Area of Expertise

  • Conflict
  • Gender and constitutions
  • Diversity
  • Customary governance/legal pluralism
  • Human rights
  • Judicial system design
  • Minority issues
  • Participation
  • Power sharing (horizontal/vertical)
  • Religion
  • Security sector

Publications

2008 Transforming Politics in Karnataka: Democracy Broadened, Deepened, Entreched (with E. Raghavan) forthcoming, Routledge/Taylor & Francis, London and New Delhi

2008 Against the Odds: Politicians, Institutions and the Struggle against Poverty (with Marcus Melo and Njuguna Ng’ethe) forthcoming

2006 Aid that Works: Successful Development in Fragile States (ed.) Washington, The World Bank

2004 Civil Society and Poverty Reduction in Less Developed Countries: A Guide for Development Practitioners, Sida, Stockholm

1999 The Political Economy of Democratic Decentralization, Washington, World Bank.

1998 Democracy and Decentralization in South Asia and West Africa: Participation, Accountability and Performance, (with Richard Crook), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

1993 Power, Poverty and Poison: Disaster and Response in an Indian City, London, New Delhi and Newbury Park, CA, Sage.

1989 The Expedient Utopian: Bandaranaike and Ceylon, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

1977 Political Change in an Indian State, Canberra, New Delhi and Columbia, MO.

Articles, Chapters:

2004 ‘Democratisation with Inclusion: Political Reforms and People’s Empowerment at the Grassroots”, Journal of Human Development, March

2002 ‘Changing State, Changing Society in India’, South Asia, August, pp. 231-56

2001 ‘Center-State Relations’ in A. Kohli (ed.) The Success of India’s Democracy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 78-102

1999 ‘Southern Discomfort: The BJP in Karnataka’ in T.B. Hansen and C. Jaffrelot (eds.) The BJP and the Compulsions of Politics in India, (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998), pp.163-
202.

1998 ‘Democratization and the Developmental State: The Search for Balance’ in M. Robinson and G. White (eds.) The Democratic Developmental State: Politics and Institutional Design, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp.125-49

1996 ‘“Ethnicity” and Politics in India’, International Affairs, 72 (3): 459-75, July

1994 ‘Political Regeneration in India’ in A. Nandy and D.L. Sheth (eds.), The Multiverse of Democracy: Essays in Honour of Rajui Kothari, New York and New Delhi, Sage, pp.230-41.

1990 ‘How and Why Liberal and Representative Politics Emerged in India’, Political Studies, March

1988 ‘Politics: Disillusionment, Ambiguity and Ferment’ in M.L. Bouton (ed.), India Briefing,
1988, New York

1988 ‘Karnataka: Caste, Class, Dominance and Politics in a Cohesive Society’ in F. Frankel and M.S.A. Rao (eds.), Dominance and State Power in Modern India, volume 1, Oxford University Press, Delhi

1988 ‘Parties and the Party System’ in A. Kohli (ed.), India's Democracy, Princeton University Press, Princeton

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