Public Policy and Politics in India
How Institutions Matter
Published on 28. February 2013
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-0-19-807759-6 (ISBN)
Description
A significant amount of research in India focuses predominantly on policy goals and consequences, and less on policy processes. Breaking away from the mould, this collection of essays by Kuldeep Mathur directly addresses the policy process and the part institutions play in policymaking in India. Public Policy and Politics in India is thus a critical contribution to the study of public policy in India. The volume brings together some of Mathur's seminal, and otherwise
not easily accessible, writings on the emerging field of public policy. It also discusses the dominant discourses in this area, transitions from one discourse to another, evolution of institutions and how they relate to each other, and, most importantly, how these institutions relate to the
socio-political forces in which they are embedded.
not easily accessible, writings on the emerging field of public policy. It also discusses the dominant discourses in this area, transitions from one discourse to another, evolution of institutions and how they relate to each other, and, most importantly, how these institutions relate to the
socio-political forces in which they are embedded.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Students and scholars of Indian politics and public administration, development studies and economics, administrators, policymakers, bureaucrats, and international aid and policy agencies.
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
514 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-807759-6 (9780198077596)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Kuldeep Mathur is Retired Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Content
INTRODUCTION ; 1. Policymaking in India ; 2. Policy Analysis in India: Research Bases and Discursive Practices (with Navdeep Mathur) ; 3. Policy Research Organizations in South Asia ; 4. Battling for Clean Environment: Supreme Court, Technocrats, and Populist Politics in Delhi ; 5. Does Performance Matter? Policy Struggles in Education ; 6. Privatization as Reform: Liberalization and Public Sector Enterprises in India ; 7. Drought in Parliament: Representation and Participation ; 8. Governance as Networks: State, Business, and Politics ; 9. Strengthening Bureaucracy: State and Development in India ; 10. Administrative Reform in India: Policy Prescriptions and Outcomes.