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Decentralisation in Contemporary India: Status, Issues and the Way Forward
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Decentralisation, Participation and Governance
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Decentralised Governance and Planning in Karnataka, India
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Decentralised Governance, Regional Development and Women Empowerment
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Decentralised Planning And The District Planning Committees
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Decentralization, Local Governance, and Social Wellbeing in India: Do Local Governments Matter?
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Decentralized Authoritarianism in China: The Communist Party’s Control of Local Elites in the Post-Mao Era
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Decentralized Governance and Panchayati Raj
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Decentralized Governance and Panchayati Raj
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Decentralized Governance of Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa
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Decentring the West: The Idea of Democracy and the Struggle for Hegemony
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Deception Point
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