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PETER
RONALD deSOUZA
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22 March 1956,
Ahmednagar, India |
| Education |
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B.Sc. Chemistry 1975, Bombay
University; M.A. Political Science 1978 (JNU,
New Delhi); M. Phil Political Science 1981 (JNU,
New Delhi); D. Phil 1987, (Sussex, U.K.) |
| Professional Positions |
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Co-Director, Lokniti-
a programme on Comparative Democracy of CSDS
and Visiting Senior Fellow, CSDS, Delhi; Lecturer
(1987-1990), Reader (1990-1997), Professor (1997-
till date), Head, Department of Political Science,
Goa University, from 1996-2003. |
| Publications |
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Books: Edited Contemporary India:
Transitions, Sage, New Delhi, September
2000; Member, Scientific Council, Lusophonies
Asiatiques, Asiatiques en Lusophonies,
Karthala, Paris Lusotopie, 2000; ----- (et
al) Social Science Research Capacity in
South Asia, Social Science Research Council
New York, 2001.
Articles: 32 in various journals,
and edited books.
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| Research Interests |
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| 1. |
Political Philosophy –
with special reference to political paradoxes
in democratic societies. |
| 2. |
Democratic Theory
– with focus on issues such as multiculturalism,
minority rights, electoral systems, constitutional
debates, etc. |
| 3. |
Democratic Politics in India with special
reference to:
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forms of protest
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decentralised politics - panchayat raj institutions
- political parties
– national and state
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secularism
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election studies – national and state |
| 4. |
State politics of Goa. |
| 5. |
Human Rights with special reference to
Dalits. |
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| Memberships |
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| 1. |
Subject
Expert for Ministry of Human Resource
Development, Commonwealth Scholarships; |
| 2. |
NETSAPPE; |
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Member, Expert Panel
on ‘Parliamentary Dimension of Democracy
for the Establishment of the Framework
for Good Practice of Democracy by Parliaments’
convened by the Inter-Parliamentary Union
in Geneva, Switzerland; |
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Member, International
Political Science Association (a) RC on
Political Philosophy and (b) Political
Sociology; Member, |
| 5. |
Dalits Intellectual
Collective, India, |
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Member, Editorial
Advisory Committee of ICSSR for Survey
of Discipline of Political Science; |
| 7. |
Member, Editorial
Committee of Indian Journal of Social
Science Review; |
| 8. |
Selection Committee
for Ford Foundation,
International Fellowships Programme. September
2001 and 2002. |
| 9. |
Member on Committee,
Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, Delhi. |
| 10. |
Member Selection
Committees for Professor in Political
Science at Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore
Universities.
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| Consultancy |
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For
International IDEA, Stockholm on State
of Democracy project, March 1999; |
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For World Bank on
Multi-State Study of Panchayat Raj
Legislation and Administrative Reform,
July–November 1999; |
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For Social Science
Research Council, New York, for study
of Social Science Research Capacity
in South Asia, September–December
2001, |
| 4. |
For – Ford
Foundation, New Delhi. Review of Decentralization
Programme of two Institutes, Institute
of Social sciences, New Delhi and Institute
for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.
February-March 2002. |
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For World Bank Dalits,
Discrimination and the struggle foe Equal
Citizenship, July 2003; |
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For UNDP- ICNRD State
of Democracy study , Mongolia, July
2005. |
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| Research Projects |
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Supervised the Goa component
of a panel study of pre-, mid-, exit and post-poll
for Lokniti, for election years 1996, 1998,
1999; Project on Dalits, Discrimination
and the Struggle for Equal Citizenship
supported by the World Bank completed in August
2003; State of Democracy in South Asia
(SDSA) from June 2003-September 2005 sponsored
by The Ford Foundation under the project on
‘Democracy and Human Security’,
International IDEA, and European Union under
their Cross Cultural Programme; Election Process
Information Collection (EPIC) from October 2003-March
2004 supported by International IDEA. |
| Scholarships/Fellowships |
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Government of India National
Scholarship for Study Abroad for D.Phil at Sussex
University, (U.K.) 1982-1987; British Council
Visitorship to the U.K. to give lectures and
make presentations at LSE, SOAS, Warwick and
Sussex University, 1992; British Council Higher
Education Link Programme, Visiting Professor,
Birkbeck College London University, March 2000;
Visiting Scholar at Taubman Centre, Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University, on
Ford Foundation Programme on ‘Democracy
and Diversity’, May 2001. |
| Office Address |
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Lokniti, Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054, India.
Tel: 91-11-23942199 Telefax:
91-11-23981012 |
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