Shaping Policy in India

Alliance, Advocacy, Activism

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government, Public Policy, Politics, History & Theory, International
Cover of the book Shaping Policy in India by Rajesh Chakrabarti, OUP India
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Rajesh Chakrabarti ISBN: 9780199091478
Publisher: OUP India Publication: August 9, 2017
Imprint: OUP India Language: English
Author: Rajesh Chakrabarti
ISBN: 9780199091478
Publisher: OUP India
Publication: August 9, 2017
Imprint: OUP India
Language: English

How effective is the Indian polity in making laws and policies to address changing ground realities? How do its gears work? Which stakeholder groups are more successful in bringing about policy change, through what methods, and in what contexts? Seeking to answer these questions, Shaping Policy in India takes a close look at nine landmark Indian laws and legislative attempts to reveal the sociopolitical process of policy formulation in the world’s largest democracy. Offering in-depth accounts of the evolution of these nine major legislations, this book interrogates the suitability of existing political theories to explain the policy development process in an emerging economy like India. It covers recent events in the 1999–2014 period that have underlined the role of non-government players in law-making in India, as well as long-standing movements like right to information, right to education, and food security. Case studies have been used to assess the complexity against the relief of existing political theories, invariably developed in the West and to identify gaps in current political theory in understanding the nature of issue-based political movements, advocacy, and activism. The book then takes a few initial steps towards suggesting a paradigm based on complexity theory that may better serve to illuminate this critical part of the political process.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

How effective is the Indian polity in making laws and policies to address changing ground realities? How do its gears work? Which stakeholder groups are more successful in bringing about policy change, through what methods, and in what contexts? Seeking to answer these questions, Shaping Policy in India takes a close look at nine landmark Indian laws and legislative attempts to reveal the sociopolitical process of policy formulation in the world’s largest democracy. Offering in-depth accounts of the evolution of these nine major legislations, this book interrogates the suitability of existing political theories to explain the policy development process in an emerging economy like India. It covers recent events in the 1999–2014 period that have underlined the role of non-government players in law-making in India, as well as long-standing movements like right to information, right to education, and food security. Case studies have been used to assess the complexity against the relief of existing political theories, invariably developed in the West and to identify gaps in current political theory in understanding the nature of issue-based political movements, advocacy, and activism. The book then takes a few initial steps towards suggesting a paradigm based on complexity theory that may better serve to illuminate this critical part of the political process.

More books from OUP India

Cover of the book Widows of Vidarbha by Rajesh Chakrabarti
Cover of the book Collected Papers in Theoretical Economics (Volume V): Economic Policy and Its Theoretical Bases by Rajesh Chakrabarti
Cover of the book Constitutional Questions and Citizens' Rights by Rajesh Chakrabarti
Cover of the book A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab by Rajesh Chakrabarti
Cover of the book Sufism, Culture, and Politics by Rajesh Chakrabarti
Cover of the book Friendships of ‘Largeness and Freedom’ by Rajesh Chakrabarti
Cover of the book Not War, Not Peace? by Rajesh Chakrabarti
Cover of the book The Future of Indian Universities by Rajesh Chakrabarti
Cover of the book The Nehrus by Rajesh Chakrabarti
Cover of the book Public Office, Private Interest by Rajesh Chakrabarti
Cover of the book 1-800-Worlds by Rajesh Chakrabarti
Cover of the book Merchants and Colonialism by Rajesh Chakrabarti
Cover of the book The Dravidian Years by Rajesh Chakrabarti
Cover of the book Africa Reset by Rajesh Chakrabarti
Cover of the book A Hindu Education by Rajesh Chakrabarti
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy