Seyed Hossein Zarhani

Governance and Development in India (eBook, PDF)

A Comparative Study on Andhra Pradesh and Bihar after Liberalization

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Produktbeschreibung

The study of the political economy of development in India is significant as India has emerged as one of the fastest-growing countries during the last three decades and the rate of economic growth and poverty reduction have not been matched in India's subnational states. Although the Union Government has introduced and implemented several economic reforms since 1991 to enhance the economic development, the results of implantation have varied.

Governance and Development in India compares two Indian subnational states, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar. The book does not consider the state as an aggregate entity; rather, it disaggregates the state relationally and spatially. Concentrating on the micro-institutional variables and the role of regional elites, the author investigates the political roots of the divergence of development trajectories among India's subnational states since liberalization, as an essential aspect of the political economy of development in India. The book explores the black box of the multi-layered state of India and interactions among the Central Government, the states, regional leaders and other stakeholders and explains why the regional leaders have pursued divergent economic strategies using the analytical narrative research method and the subnational comparative research method.

Firmly based on the theoretical foundations of the neo-institutional rational choice model of governance, polycentric hierarchy theory and the strategies for regional elite strategy analysis, combined with empirical research, this book is a valuable contribution to the fields of comparative political economy, state politics in India, governance and development in developing countries, and South Asian comparative politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351255196
• Artikelnr.: 54143320

Autorenporträt

Seyed Hossein Zarhani is post-doctoral research fellow and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Puzzle of Divergent Development Trajectories within a
Debated (non)-Developmental State 2. State of Art: Governance and
Comparative Political Economy 3. Theoretical Framework 4. Elite Agency and
Development in Andhra Pradesh (I): Confrontation and Populism in the Age of
Tollywood Superstar 5. Elite Agency and Development in Andhra Pradesh (II):
Pragmatism, Cooperation and Pro-Growth Policies in Era of the CEO of Andhra
Pradesh 6. Elite Agency and Development in Bihar (I): Confrontation and
Populism in Era of 'Gharibon Ka Masiha' 7. Elite Agency and Development in
Bihar (II): Pragmatism, Cooperation, and Reforms in the Era of 'Sushasan
Babu' 8. Conclusion: a Transformed Institutional Arrangement, Rational
Regional Leaders, and Development