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, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural poor--Government policy--India.

Rural poor.

Rural poor--Government policy--United States.

Rural development--Government policy--India.

Rural development.

New Deal, 1933-1939.

India--Social conditions--1947-.

India.

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

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 312 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1993]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures, Maps, and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Institutions, Rationality, and Poverty Alleviation

Chapter 1: Organizational Processes of Policy Implementation

Chapter 2: Rational Success, Political Failure: Programs to Benefit the Rural Poor during the New Deal

Chapter 3: Making Employment an Entitlement: Maharashtra's Employment Guarantee Scheme

Chapter 4: Politics Takes Command: Implementation of the National Rural Employment Programme in West Bengal

Chapter 5: The Politics of Rationality and the Rationality of Politics

Statistical Appendix to Chapter 3: Relationships between Social Economic Variables and the Spatial Distribution of EGS Employment Generation

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520913264

0520913264

9780585043715

058504371X

OCLC:

1198930904