How Solidarity Works for Welfare - Subnationalism and Social Development in India

This book develops an argument for the power of collective identity as an impetus for state prioritization of social welfare.

List of contents

List of figures and tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Subnationalism and social development: an introduction; 2. How solidarity works for welfare: the subnationalist motivation for social development; 3. The origins of the differential strength of subnationalism; 4. How subnationalism promotes social development; 5. How absence of subnationalism impedes social development; 6. Subnationalism and social development across Indian states; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Prerna Singh is the Mahatma Gandhi Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Brown University, Rhode Island where she is also a faculty fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Prior to joining Brown, she taught in the Department of Government at Harvard University, Massachusetts. Singh has received numerous fellowships from the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, the Center for Advanced Study for India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. Her articles have been published in several journals, including World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, World Development, and Studies in Comparative International Development. Singh is the co-editor of Routledge Handbook of Indian Politics (2013).

Summary

Drawing on a multi-method study, from the late-nineteenth century to the present, of the stark variations in educational and health outcomes within a large, federal, multiethnic developing country - India - this book develops an argument for the power of collective identity as an impetus for state prioritization of social welfare.

Product details

• Authors: Prerna Singh, Prerna (Brown University Singh
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.01.2016
• EAN: 9781107070059
• ISBN: 978-1-107-07005-9
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Nationalism, LAW / Civil Procedure, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, LAW / Litigation, India, Politics & government, Political Economy, Social welfare and social services, Politics and government, Constitution: government and the state