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bureaucrats and politicians with vested interests, and pushing for the institutionalisation and actual implementation of the plans and projects. The latter was clearly indicated by the poor results for the traditional Left Front politicians in the recent local elections who thought that they would be able to harvest what the consistent reformists had sowed.

TOWARDS THE CONCLUSIONS

The analytical point, of course, is that the character and combinations of the factors discussed above regarding space, politicisation, and mobilisation would both help us describe movement politics of democratisation and explain some of its dynamics. Time and space only permit us, however, to point to two processes and one policy conclusion - the ones that have already been presented in the first part of the essay.

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