The state and the poor : public policy and political development in India and the United States / John Echeverri-Gent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Echeverri-Gent, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural poor--Government policy--India.

Rural poor.

Rural poor--Government policy--United States.

Rural development--Government policy--India.

Rural development.

Rural development--Government policy.

Rural poor--Government policy.

India.

New Deal, 1933-1939.

India--Social conditions--1947-.

Social conditions.

United States--Social conditions--1933-1945.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 312 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993]

Summary:

This comparison of rural development in India and the United States develops important departures from economic and historical institutionalism. It elaborates a new conceptual framework for analyzing state-society relations beginning from the premise that policy implementation, as the site of tangible exchanges between state and society, provides strategic interaction among self-interested individuals, social groups, and bureaucracies. It demonstrates how this interaction can be harnessed to enhance the effectiveness of public policy. Echeverri-Gent's application of this framework to poverty alleviation programs generates provocative insights about the ways in which institutions and social structure constrain policy-makers. In the process, he illuminates new implications for the concepts of state autonomy and state capacity.

The book's original conceptual framework and intriguing findings will interest scholars of South Asia and American politics, social theorists, and policy-makers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0520080823

OCLC:

26398639