1st Edition
States Matter Subnational Public Policies in India
List of figures
List of tables
About the authors
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction – Why study state government policies, choice of cases and study period
2. A rural crisis in Maharashtra
3. Tackling left-wing extremism in Andhra Pradesh
4. Land hunger and the challenge of ultra-left ideology
5. Urban crisis and transformation in Kolkata
6. Public unrest and power reforms in Delhi and West Bengal
7. Legitimacy through Village Development Boards in Nagaland
8. Jyotigram Yojana: Electricity reforms in Gujarat
9. Susashan- good governance in Bihar
10. An election promise and the Mumbai-Pune Expressway
11. Breakthrough in agriculture in Madhya Pradesh
12. Left politics and sharecroppers in West Bengal
13. The ideology of social justice and the mid-day meal scheme (MDMS)
14. Different pathways to democratic decentralization in Kerala and West Bengal
15. Ideology and exclusion
16. Unintended Consequences
17. Joint Forest Management
18. Women’s Self-Help Groups (SHGs) in Andhra Pradesh
19. Rural sanitation in Himachal Pradesh and West Bengal
20. Conclusions-The Logic of Subnational Public Policy
21. Postscript-Digital public policies and the changing state–citizen interface
Index
Biography
Sanjay Mitra is Professor of Public Policy at IIT Delhi and Chairman of the Center for Research on the Economics of Climate, Food, Energy, and Environment (CECFEE) at the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi.
Basudeb Banerjee is Visiting Faculty at the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, and Member of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission.
Dilip Ghosh is Visiting Faculty at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, and former Secretary in the Government of West Bengal.
