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Governing India: What Do We Know and Need to Know?

In: Perspectives on Inclusive Policies for Development in India

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  • Rahul Mukherji

    (South Asia Institute, Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies)

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This paper presents a view regarding state capacity in India after discussing the extensive literature on clientelism. It proposes that state capacity in India has much to do with the way in which the central and sub-national states cogitate about policy goals and the means to achieve them. For example, is import substitution or export promotion the way to grow? Will growth trickle down to the poor or is non-market redistribution the way to alleviate poverty? These issues are debated between puzzling bureaucrats and powering politicians, and when they reach a tipping point, we see that the state finds capacity to deliver even in a liberal democracy like India. The paper proposes a tipping point model for understanding state capacity in the Indian liberal democracy. It suggests a way for liberal democracies to fight clientelism and develop the capacity to pursue their goals, even though these goals are often unrealized.

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  • Rahul Mukherji, 2022. "Governing India: What Do We Know and Need to Know?," India Studies in Business and Economics, in: Saiyed Raza Hashim & Rahul Mukherji & Brajaraja Mishra (ed.), Perspectives on Inclusive Policies for Development in India, pages 195-212, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isbchp:978-981-19-0185-0_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-0185-0_10
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