Public Institutions in India - Performance and Design

Klappentext The essays in this volume present an analytical appraisal of public institutions in India. The purpose here is not just to give a history of these institutions but to ask what explains their performance and what might be learnt from their experience. It assesses the manner in which they assist, thwart, manipulate, and subvert each other. The aim is to provide a complex account of the modalities through which state power is exercised and policy enacted. This study contributes to debates on institutional change and reform that are currently underway in India by bringing more analytical rigour and enlarging the parameters of the debate. These debates are particularly important given that Indian economy and society have changed profoundly in the last decade and a half. Much of the discussion is on how state institutions like the civil service, the courts, the police, parliament, and regulatory institutions will need to be reconfigured to better adapt to changing circumstances. Zusammenfassung This volume is an analytical study of India's public institutions. It covers the Parliament! the Presidency! the Judiciary! the Comptroller and Auditor General! the Police! the Civil Service! and economic institutions like the Reserve Bank of India! the Finance Commission! the SEBI! the TRAI! and the Pay Commission.

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• Authors: Devesh Kapur, Devesh (EDT)/ Mehta Kapur
• Assisted by: Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Editor), Devesh Kapur (Editor), Devesh (Director Kapur (Editor), Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Editor), Pratap Bhanu (President Mehta (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.09.2007
• EAN: 9780195689662
• ISBN: 978-0-19-568966-2
• No. of pages: 504
• Series: Oxford India Collection (Paper; Oxford India Collection (Paper
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education