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The State and the Poor: Public Policy and Political Development in India and the United States

The State and the Poor: Public Policy and Political Development in India and the United States

Echeverri-Gent, John

Hardcover

General Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0520080823
ISBN13: 9780520080829
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Oct 26 1993
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.62 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
This comparison of rural development in India and the United States develops important departures from economic and historical institutionalism. It elaborates a new conceptual framework for analyzing state-society relations beginning from the premise that policy implementation, as the site of tangible exchanges between state and society, provides strategic interaction among self-interested individuals, social groups, and bureaucracies. It demonstrates how this interaction can be harnessed to enhance the effectiveness of public policy. Echeverri-Gent's application of this framework to poverty alleviation programs generates provocative insights about the ways in which institutions and social structure constrain policy-makers. In the process, he illuminates new implications for the concepts of state autonomy and state capacity.

The book's original conceptual framework and intriguing findings will interest scholars of South Asia and American politics, social theorists, and policy-makers.

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