1st Edition
Constrained Expertise in India and China Knowledge and Power in Policymaking
Introduction
Manjari Mahajan and Mark W. Frazier
Part I Mobilizing Expertise: Institutional Structures and Hierarchies Within States
1. Policymaking and Expertise in Telangana State: Mediating Knowledge and Interests in Pursuit of Economic Development and Social Justice in Hyderabad
Loraine Kennedy and Ram Mohan Chitta
2. Experts, Policymaking, and China’s Responses to COVID-19
Xuefei Ren
3. Experts and Policymakers in China’s Urban Waste Governance
Ceren Ergenc
4. Beyond Local State Corporatism and Entrepreneurial Political Selves : A Governance Assemblage Perspective on the Management of Foreigners in a Chinese County
Ka-Kin Cheuk
Part II Logics of Exclusion—and Occasional Inclusion: Policymaking and Knowledge from Local Communities and Social Movements
5. Gendering Scholar Activism in China’s Rural Development
Yang Zhan
6. Shifting Locations of Knowledge Production for Health Policies : Community Engagement in Palliative Care in the
Indian State of Kerala
C U Thresia
7. Challenging the Centralized Hierarchy of Civil Nuclear Policy and Expertise in India: Antinuclear Opposition from the mid-2000s to late-2010s
Kesava Chandra Varigonda
8. Struggle for Stability: Coping with COVID-19 Community-Led Actions and Learning from M-East Ward of Mumbai
Avinash Madhale
Part III Comparisons and Global Flows
9. Knowledge and Power: China’s High-Tech Industry and the Perils of a Shifting Global Knowledge Hierarchy
Yu Zhou
10. Pushing and Pulling: Institutional Underpinnings of Energy Transitions in India and China
Rohit Chandra
11. Why China and India Diverged in Universal Elementary Education Policy: Implementation Measurement and the Culture of Expertise
Wenjuan Zhang
Biography
Manjari Mahajan is Associate Professor of International Affairs, and the Starr Professor and Co-Director of the India China Institute at The New School. Her work is on global health, politics of science and technology, development, and philanthrocapitalism.
Mark W. Frazier is Professor of Politics, and the Starr Professor and Co-Director of the India China Institute at The New School. His research examines China’s political economy in comparative perspective, including social policy and the politics of population aging.
