Mooij, Jos (2007) Is there an Indian policy process? an investigation into two social policy processes. Social Policy and Administration, 41 (4). pp. 323-338.
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Abstract
India is a huge, poor, fast developing, centralized and increasingly unequal, democratic country. The core argument of this article is that these and other contextual factors have an impact on the way in which social policies are formulated and implemented. The focus of the article is on two such policies on food and primary education. Based on secondary material and own fieldwork, the shaping of these two policies is discussed and some major characteristics of the two social policy processes are highlighted. This analysis brings to light the existence of two paradoxes present in social policy processes in India: one related to the fact that social policies are important for regime legitimacy but nevertheless suffer from a lack of political commitment; the other related to the fact that centralized decision-making goes together with the widespread involvement of local politicians in policy implementation. These two paradoxes, the article concludes, are the result of the wider context in which social policies are shaped and are hence not easily resolved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Institute of Social Studies, PO BOX 29776 2502 LT The Hague, the Netherlands |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Sandhya Gir |
| Date Deposited: | 10 May 2011 06:28 |
| Last Modified: | 10 May 2011 06:28 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/2004 |
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