TY - GEN digital ID - 131667863 TI - Institutional Change and Power Asymmetry in the Context of Rural India PY - 2019 SN - 9789811313011 PB - Singapore Springer Singapore :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Politics KW - Economic policy and planning (general) KW - Social security law KW - economische politiek KW - welvaartsstaat KW - politiek KW - India UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131667863 AB - This book explains how to bring about institutional change and foster new institutional structures (institution building) by resolving power inequities in a rural ecosystem in India, and advocates the identification of an appropriate institutional champion to make this happen. The book develops a power-asymmetry-based framework and argues that a champion with the right attributes and the 'ability’ to 'convene' people over a social issue can only succeed if he/she can resolve or reduce the deep-rooted societal power asymmetries within that community. It also presents four case studies that indicate how such social change is typically spread over a long period of time. ER -