Associate Professor Peter Mayer

Research Interests

The political economy of the Third World

Rural development

India's political economy

Political obstacles to development

Poor people's cooperatives

Human rights in the Third World

Suicide and Violence in India

Publications

For an extended listing of Peter Mayer's publications, please see attached document.

Selected Publications --digital copies

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1. "Making Democracy Perform: Human Development and Civic Community in India" in Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya, Niraja Gopal Jayal, Bishnu N. Mohapatra & Sudha Pai (eds.) Interrogating Social Capital (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2004)
2. "Inventing Village Tradition: The Late 19th Century Origins of the North Indian 'Jajmani System'"
3. "India's Falling Sex Ratios" Population and Development Review Volume 25, No. 2 (June, 1999), pp. 323-343.
4. "Modernisation and the Male-Female Suicide Ratio in India 1967-1997" Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 34(2) (Summer, 2004) pp. 147-159 (with Della Steen).
5. "Female Equality and Suicide in the Indian States" Psychological Reports , 92, (2003), pp.1022-1028.

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   • Chapters in Edited Volumes
     
   • "Privatization and Resistance in South Asia" in Mita Bhattacharya, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany (Eds) South Asia in the Era of Globalization: Trade, Industrialization and Welfare (Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 2004)
   • "'We are the Slowest Reformers': Disinvestment of India's State-Owned Enterprises" in Dilip Dutta (ed.) Economic Liberalisation and Institutional Reforms in South Asia: Recent Experiences and Future Prospects (New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2000)
   • "Militarism and Development in Underdeveloped Societies" in Lester Kurtz (ed.) Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict  Second Edition (Oxford: Academic Press, 2008)
   • "The Two Nations: Indian Federalism in the Rip Tide of Debt and Globalism" in Ian Copland and John Rickard (eds.) Federalism: Australia and India (New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, forthcoming 1997)
   • "Equal Opportunity: "`Shock' or Opportunity? Reflections on the Australian Experience," in A. Nakamura ed., Comparative Studies of Public Administration (Tokyo: EROPA Local Government Center, 1995).

Files

• Full listing of publications - Mayer.pdf [68.7K] (application/pdf)

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Entry last updated: Saturday, 15 Sep 2012