Subject(s): Socio Economic issues -- Local Democracy -- Comparative government -- Democratization inChina, India -- Political participation in China, India -- Institutional structure local participation -- Local government in India and china -- Dependency vs autonomy -- Rural political participation in Maoist and post-mao period -- Institutional innovation in China's governance -- Civil society: Anatomy of a rural NGO in Qinghai -- Change in Local administration in Inner Mongolia -- Village panchayat in Maharashtra -- Kerala's people's plan campaign 1996-2001 -- Panchayat raj system in Karnataka -- Local governance and emerging socio-economic issues -- Local political economy of informal finance and micro finance in Rural china and India -- Stratification and institutional exclusion in China and India -- Women and local power in India and China -- Gender and work and power in Andhra village -- Democracy , good governance and economic development in India and china -- Environment , family and local government among Tajik people -- Kaxie system of the Lahu people in South-west china -- Social change and the development of democracy in local governance in Tibet -- Functions and interactions of three institutions at the grass root -- Democracy, power and resistance in the Indian and Chinese countryside