The Non-Party Political Process
The Non-Party Political Process

Summary/Abstract: A sense of uncertainty seems to characterize both our approach to public affairs and our modes of thinking about them. Underlying it is a growing contradiction between expectations born out of a given ideology, or doctrine, or theory — the Theory of Progress, the Theory of Development, the Theory of Participation — and what happens in reality. While all these are interrelated and will be dealt with, the focus of this paper will be on the problem of participation, its changing context and growing paradoxes, and the emerging possibilities and thresholds of both theoretical concern and practical action. My analysis will be based by and large on the Indian experience but is more widely applicable and will be presented in general terms.

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