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India Between Scylla and Charybdis: Negotiating the Cliff of Federalism

Author(s) : Hönig, Patrick
Description : In the past several years, the South Asian sub-continent has been making headlines for what is seen as the challenge of its multiple ‘failing states’, while India, the ‘anchor state’ to which all the dots connect, continues to enjoy the reputation of being the world’s largest democracy and a risi...
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Legitimität von Kin-state Politik im Liberalismus : Möglichkeiten der Staatenverantwortlichkeit gegenüber der Kin-minority innerhalb der liberalen Ansätze der Multikulturalismus-Debatte

Author(s) : Hatvany, Csilla
Description : In allen post-kommunistischen Staaten Osteuropas ist im Zuge der „dreifachen Transformation“ von Staat, Nation und Markt zur Institutionalisierung sogenannter Kin-state-Politiken gekommen, also zur Verabschiedung von (verfassungs)-rechtlichen Regelungen der Beziehungen zwischen einem Staat (Kin-stat...
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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s ‘strategic agnosticism’: A compilation of his socio-political philosophy and worldview

Author(s) : Wolf, Siegfried O.
Description : Since India's independence (and even before) there is a growing ideological debate regarding its identity and self-understanding. The focal point of this discussion is the much-disputed and multi-faceted Indian historical figure Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1985-1966). His life and work, and above all ...
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Image-Formation at a Nation’s Edge: Thai Perceptions of its Border Dispute with Cambodia - Implications for South Asia

Description : Frontier friction has been a recurring phenomenon in much of the world, including in South and Southeast Asia. Yet the social construction of antagonistic border perceptions offers lessons about how not to frame a country's views of its  neighbors. Though boundary disputes in South Asia are currentl...
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The West Bengal Panchayat Model in Peril? A Survey-based Appraisal of West Bengal Panchayats

Author(s) : Fürstenberg, Kai
Description : The Panchayati Raj System was aimed to be a tool for democratisation and development of the rural parts of India. The state of West Bengal was long time considered a model for a efficient and exemplary implementation of local self- government. Especially the early successes of the Communist gover...
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Kashmir Revisited: Factoring Governance, Terrorism and Pakistan, as Usual

Author(s) : Ghosh, Partha S.
Description : The enigma of Kashmir is unending. All analyses in respect of its solution seem mere repetitions of hackneyed recommendations. This paper is a confession of that disappointment. As a sequel to an earlier contribution to Heidelberg Papers (Working Paper No. 7, September 2002) the argument here tha...
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Institutionen und Reformen

Author(s) : Walleyo, Tim
Description : Gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Veränderungen stellen zentrale Handlungsfel-der der Politik dar. Demographischer Wandel und Globalisierung beispielsweise sind wesentliche Herausforderungen, die vielen politischen Systemen schnelle und umfassende Reaktionen abverlangen. Die Anpassung an die geä...
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Die Entstehung des Europäischen Verfassungsvertrags : Eine empirische Untersuchung kommunikativen Handelns im Europäischen Verfassungskonvent

Author(s) : Dietz, Wolfgang
Description : In der Magisterarbeit werden zwei Debatten im Europäischen Verfassungskonvent auf kommunikatives Handeln im Sinne der habermas'schen Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns untersucht. Dabei wird die vorherrschende Hypothese über den Zusammenhang zwischen institutionellem Setting, kommunikativen Handeln...
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Regionalization and Institutionalization : Dimensions of Multi-level Party System Change in India

Author(s) : Pehl, Malte
Description : The dissertation analyzes two important aspects of party politics in India today, regionalization and institutionalization. In some regions of India, the phenomena of de-institutionalization and regionalization of politics are closely tied together, while in others the regionalization of politics ha...
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UPA (2004-) Globalization and Indian Federalism: a Paradigm Shift?

Description : In this paper the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) (2005-)’s approach to federalism in India is critically examined in the backdrop of India’s ongoing globalization since the early 1990s, and a comparative assessment of the same in relation to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance’...
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