Public policy and politics in India : how institutions matter / Kuldeep Mathur.

By:

Mathur, Kuldeep [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford India paperbacksPublisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2013Edition: First editionDescription: x, 295 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780199466054 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

320.60954 MAT 23 016110

LOC classification:

JQ229.P64 M37 2013

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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