Social Scientist The Convergence Around Local Civil Society and the Dangers of Localism Kristian Stokke & Giles Mohan 3 Public Action and the Dialectics of Decentralisation: Against the myth of social capital as 'the missing link in development5 John Harriss 25 Democratic Decentralisation and the Planning Principle: The Transition from Below C.P. Chandrasekhar 41 Movement, Politics and Development: The Case of Kerala Olle Tornquist 57 BOOK REVIEW 88