Vinay Lal (ed), India and Civilizational Futures: Bckwaters Collective's Metaphysics and Politics II

Learning from the Politics of Futures

The central intent of this essay is based on the author's master's thesis named 'Creating alternative community futures: A community futures tragedy.' This thesis explored the question "Can local governments empower their communities with the opportunity and capacity to create alternative futures?" Local governments in their role of managing issues and planning for the future have more recently...

Asia 11 MURARI LAL ( INDIA ) , HIDEO HARASAWA ( JAPAN )

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Religious Riots and Electoral Politics in India

The effect of ethnic violence on electoral results provides useful insights into voter behaviour and the incentives for political parties in democratic societies. Religious riots have claimed more than 14,000 lives in India since 1950. We study the effect of Hindu-Muslim riots on election results in India. We combine data on riots with electoral data on state legislature elections and control v...

Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India

Intentionality, Politics, And Religion

The idea that intentionality is the distinctive mark of the mental or that only mental phenomena have intentionality emerged in the philosophical tradition after Franz Brentano. Much of contemporary philosophy is dedicated to a rejection of the view that mental phenomena have original intentionality. In other words, main strands of contemporary philosophy seek to naturalize intentionality of th...