商品簡介
The essays in the three-volume series, Explaining Indian Democracy: A Fifty-Year Perspective, 1956-2006, span over five decades of the Rudolphs' scholarship on politics in India. This work brings out the distinctiveness of Indian democratic experience through a contextual political analysis.
The Realm of Ideas, the first of the three volumes, explores how modes of inquiry, kinds of knowledge, construction of categories, and historical context shape political analysis and explanation. The scholars argue for methodological pluralism and 'situated knowledge'. They also critique key concepts such as political culture, modernization, civil society, and orientalism and apply them to questions of social change.
作者簡介
Lloyd I. Rudolph is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Chicago. He served as Chair of the University's Committee on International Relations.
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph is William Benton Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, University of Chicago. She served as President of the American Political Science Association and of the Association for Asian Studies.
