Public Policy and Politics in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Policy and Politics in India write by Kuldeep Mathur. This book was released on 2016-04. Public Policy and Politics in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Policymaking in India evokes an image of rational decision-making and technical optimality. However, the arena of policymaking is characterized by conflict and contestation resolved through processes of negotiations and compromises. A significant amount of research in India focuses on policy goals and consequences, and less on policy processes. Breaking away from that approach, Public Policy and Politics in India directly addresses policy processes and discusses the role of institutions in policymaking in India. The wide-ranging essays cover issues such as environment, education, Parliament, liberalization, and governance. They highlight failures of implementation resulting from deep-rooted flaws in overall policy design. The volume aims not only to provoke a debate but also to encourage more systematic studies in the area.
Costs of Democracy
Costs of Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Costs of Democracy write by Devesh Kapur. This book was released on 2018-06-13. Costs of Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most troubling critiques of contemporary democracy is the inability of representative governments to regulate the deluge of money in politics. If it is impossible to conceive of democracies without elections, it is equally impractical to imagine elections without money. Costs of Democracy is an exhaustive, ground-breaking study of money in Indian politics that opens readers’ eyes to the opaque and enigmatic ways in which money flows through the political veins of the world’s largest democracy. Through original, in-depth investigation—drawing from extensive fieldwork on political campaigns, pioneering surveys, and innovative data analysis—the contributors in this volume uncover the institutional and regulatory contexts governing the torrent of money in politics; the sources of political finance; the reasons for such large spending; and how money flows, influences, and interacts with different tiers of government. The book raises uncomfortable questions about whether the flood of money risks washing away electoral democracy itself.
Water and Public Policy in India
Water and Public Policy in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Water and Public Policy in India write by Deepti Acharya. This book was released on 2021-09-16. Water and Public Policy in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the conceptual and theoretical frameworks of Right to Water and analyzes its values in the context of water policy frameworks of the union governments in India. It uses a qualitative approach and combines critical hermeneutics with critical content analysis to introduce a new water policy framework. The volume maps the complex argumentative narrations which have emerged and evolved in the idea of Right to Water and traces the various contours and the nature of water policy texts in independent India. The book argues that the idea of Right to Water has emerged, evolved and is being argued through theoretical arguments and is shaped with the help of institutional arrangements developed at the international, regional, and national levels. Finally, the book underlines that India’s national water policies drafted respectively in 1987, 2002 and 2012, are ideal but are not embracing the values and elements of Right to Water. The volume will be of critical importance to scholars and researchers of public policy, environment, especially water policy, law, and South Asian studies.
When Crime Pays
When Crime Pays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Crime Pays write by Milan Vaishnav. This book was released on 2017-01-01. When Crime Pays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first thorough study of the co-existence of crime and democratic processes in Indian politics In India, the world's largest democracy, the symbiotic relationship between crime and politics raises complex questions. For instance, how can free and fair democratic processes exist alongside rampant criminality? Why do political parties recruit candidates with reputations for wrongdoing? Why are one-third of state and national legislators elected--and often re-elected--in spite of criminal charges pending against them? In this eye-opening study, political scientist Milan Vaishnav mines a rich array of sources, including fieldwork on political campaigns and interviews with candidates, party workers, and voters, large surveys, and an original database on politicians' backgrounds to offer the first comprehensive study of an issue that has implications for the study of democracy both within and beyond India's borders.
The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy
The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy write by Michael Moran. This book was released on 2008-06-12. The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is part of a ten volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. This work explores the business end of politics, where theory meets practice in the pursuit of public good.
