Rethinking Public Institutions in India
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9780199474370
Publication date:
26/04/2017
Hardback
548 pages
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ISBN:
9780199474370
Publication date:
26/04/2017
Hardback
548 pages
Edited by Devesh Kapur, Pratap Bhanu Mehta & Milan Vaishnav
This volume provides an analytical overview of the institutional foundations of the Indian state. By drawing on the insights of some of the most knowledgeable scholars and practitioners with deep knowledge of the Indian bureaucracy, this volume provides a comprehensive and incisive introduction to the functioning of the Indian state, relying on interdisciplinary approaches and decades of practitioner experience. It will be an indispensable guide to understanding India’s capacity to navigate the far-reaching transformations underway.
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Edited by Devesh Kapur, Pratap Bhanu Mehta & Milan Vaishnav
Description
While a growing private sector and a vibrant civil society can help compensate for the shortcomings of India’s public sector, the state is—and will remain—indispensable in delivering basic governance. In Rethinking Public Institutions in India, distinguished political and economic thinkers critically assess a diverse array of India’s core federal institutions, from the Supreme Court and Parliament to the Election Commission and the civil services.
Relying on interdisciplinary approaches and decades of practitioner experience, this volume interrogates the capacity of India’s public sector to navigate the far-reaching transformations the country is experiencing. An insightful introduction to the functioning of Indian democracy, it offers a roadmap for carrying out fundamental reforms that will be necessary for India to build a reinvigorated state for the twenty-first century.
About the Editors
Devesh Kapur is the Madan Lal Sobti professor for the Study of Contemporary India and the director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is the president and chief executive of the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi, India.
Milan Vaishnav is a senior fellow in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC, USA.
Edited by Devesh Kapur, Pratap Bhanu Mehta & Milan Vaishnav
Table of contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Devesh Kapur, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, and Milan Vaishnav
1. The Presidency
James Manor
2. Parliament
M.R. Madhavan
3. The Supreme Court
Madhav Khosla and Ananth Padmanabhan
4. Reserve Bank of India: The Way Forward
Errol D’Souza
5. Reforming India’s Institutions of Public Expenditure Governance
Nirvikar Singh
6. New Regulatory Institutions in Infrastructure: From De-politicization to Creative Politics
Navroz K. Dubash
7. Institutions of Internal Accountability
R. Sridharan
8. Foregrounding Financial Accountability in Governance
Amitabh Mukhopadhyay
9. The Civil Service
K.P. Krishnan and T.V. Somanathan
10. Election Commission of India
E. Sridharan and Milan Vaishnav
11. Re-energizing Democratic Decentralization in India
T.R. Raghunandan
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
Edited by Devesh Kapur, Pratap Bhanu Mehta & Milan Vaishnav
Features
- The book will be released at a time when there is much consternation about the quality of governance in India.
- The book brings together insights from academics as well as practitioners, and it covers the waterfront in terms of institutions—from parliament to the RBI, and from the Supreme Court to regulatory agencies.
- It helps provide a framework for how ordinary Indians can make sense of what is a widely-held notion: that the government in Delhi often does not work the way it should.
- The book not only offers a diagnosis of the problem, but it offers lessons for how to improve governance in the years to come.
Edited by Devesh Kapur, Pratap Bhanu Mehta & Milan Vaishnav
Review
‘This volume is a unique and illuminating study of India's public institutions. No other book gets to the bottom of India's governance deficits with the same combination of rigor and insight. It is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers—not to mention ordinary citizens.’
—Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, Government of India
‘Transforming India's state from its current muddle to a high-capacity state capable of addressing the challenges it faces is a pressing issue and there is no better place to start than with this hard-edged, clear-eyed edited volume.’
—Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Description
While a growing private sector and a vibrant civil society can help compensate for the shortcomings of India’s public sector, the state is—and will remain—indispensable in delivering basic governance. In Rethinking Public Institutions in India, distinguished political and economic thinkers critically assess a diverse array of India’s core federal institutions, from the Supreme Court and Parliament to the Election Commission and the civil services.
Relying on interdisciplinary approaches and decades of practitioner experience, this volume interrogates the capacity of India’s public sector to navigate the far-reaching transformations the country is experiencing. An insightful introduction to the functioning of Indian democracy, it offers a roadmap for carrying out fundamental reforms that will be necessary for India to build a reinvigorated state for the twenty-first century.
About the Editors
Devesh Kapur is the Madan Lal Sobti professor for the Study of Contemporary India and the director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is the president and chief executive of the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi, India.
Milan Vaishnav is a senior fellow in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC, USA.
Reviews
‘This volume is a unique and illuminating study of India's public institutions. No other book gets to the bottom of India's governance deficits with the same combination of rigor and insight. It is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers—not to mention ordinary citizens.’
—Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, Government of India
‘Transforming India's state from its current muddle to a high-capacity state capable of addressing the challenges it faces is a pressing issue and there is no better place to start than with this hard-edged, clear-eyed edited volume.’
—Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Table of contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Devesh Kapur, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, and Milan Vaishnav
1. The Presidency
James Manor
2. Parliament
M.R. Madhavan
3. The Supreme Court
Madhav Khosla and Ananth Padmanabhan
4. Reserve Bank of India: The Way Forward
Errol D’Souza
5. Reforming India’s Institutions of Public Expenditure Governance
Nirvikar Singh
6. New Regulatory Institutions in Infrastructure: From De-politicization to Creative Politics
Navroz K. Dubash
7. Institutions of Internal Accountability
R. Sridharan
8. Foregrounding Financial Accountability in Governance
Amitabh Mukhopadhyay
9. The Civil Service
K.P. Krishnan and T.V. Somanathan
10. Election Commission of India
E. Sridharan and Milan Vaishnav
11. Re-energizing Democratic Decentralization in India
T.R. Raghunandan
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
