▪ Abstract This chapter reviews the literature on media and globalization. It develops the
argument that this literature foregrounds a problem that, ironically, it also largely disavows …

The internet has fundamentally transformed society in the past 25 years, yet existing theories
of mass or interpersonal communication do not work well in understanding a digital world …

When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial rule, it immediately
adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech, and …

Ramachandra Guha's India after Gandhi is a magisterial account of the pains, struggles,
humiliations and glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy. A riveting …

The determinants of government responsiveness to its citizens are a key issue in political
economy. Here, we develop a model based on the solution of political agency problems …

Presenting the grand sweep of Indian history from antiquity to the present, A History of India
is a detailed and authoritative account of the major political, economic, social and cultural …

Indian party politics, commonly viewed as chaotic, clientelistic, and corrupt, is nevertheless a
model for deepening democracy and accommodating diversity. Historically, though …

This book is about the role that the media and other forms of communication can play in
improving the conditions of life for the world's poorest people. The scale and depth of world …

Is it possible to cause a sensation by revealing something that everybody already knows?
Certainly that is what seems to have happened in March 2001, when an up-and-coming …

In the 1990s a newspaper revolution began blowing across northern and central India. In
these Hindi-speaking states, when literacy levels rose, communications expanded, and …