A Sinha
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 33082 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Sinha |
| NOMBRES | A |
| APELLIDO | Sinha |
| FIRMA | SINHA A |
| AFILIACIONES | Claremont McKenna College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7767-7322 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 177 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Analyzing the Diversity of a Large Emerging Market
Like other large emerging markets, India’s economy cannot be understood without explaining significant sectoral variations within manufacturing and services. Diverse and persistent sectoral patterns reveal the inadequacies of a dirigisme-liberalization frame that relies on a state versus market dichotomy adopted by most analyses of India’s political economy. Rather, each sector combines state and markets in diverse ways. Focusing on sectors, howe…
Critical juncture, learning and state capacity-in-motion
Precisely because public health crises are uncertain, complex and have multiple dimensions, deeper institutional state capacity is needed. This article develops an approach to thinking about state capacity by incorporating time as a key component of a refurbished idea of state capacity. This reorientation helps us understand the specific mechanisms, especially of learning – that were crucial for the success of East Asian cases in managing the COV…
Willing' ethnic-nationalists, diffusion, and resentment in India
Using evidence regarding the consolidation of Hindu nationalism in India we put forward new ethnographic data about the variety of popular support for a Hindutva project and a new framework that proposes an interactive theory of social identity. This framework helps us understand how Hindu nationalism becomes embedded in society. We assert that Hindu nationalism in India could be fruitfully analysed by focusing on the processes through which idea…
Developing an “India in the World” Framework
India’s political economy and economic policies can no longer be understood in a purely domestic-oriented or closed economy framework. This paper offers an “India in the world” framework that analyzes how traditional borders of domestic political economy and international politics interact in shaping domestic policy and political economy. In contrast to existing political economy approaches on India, such a framework pays attention to the changin…
After compliance in India and beyond
Using India as a theory building case, this paper puts forward a theoretical framework for understanding countries’ responses to global rules and implementation effects across diverse global governance regimes and contexts. The initial premise for this paper is that the strategic structure of implementation dilemmas faced by states and actors within countries need to be understood in addition to design dilemmas. Successful global regimes must not…
India and global governance across international regimes and time
India’s rising power and status within a variety of global institutions is well explained with the help of an inside-out approach, with a focus on India’s domestic compulsions and strategies. This special section of four articles in Contemporary South Asia deepens this inside-out analysis, combining it with an outside-in approach to global institutions which explore how the global regime in question shapes and interacts with domestic impulses and…
India in a changing global world
Building upon a vast literature and Ministry of External Affairs Annual reports, this article argues that India’s foreign actions through its 75 years are not only domestically generated. Analysis of India’s foreign relations must include an assessment of changing global structures and how they affect domestic imperatives. A ‘inside-outside’ perspective, with a focus on India’s ideas and actions, must to be combined with an ‘outside-in’ analysis.…
Economic distress amidst political success
Narendra Modi came to power in 2014 promising robust economic management and more employment. The campaign promise of “maximum governance, minimum government,” created hope that Modi would transform India’s economy by removing obstacles to growth and job creation. We assess the Modi government’s economic policies from 2014–2019 focusing on salient initiatives like demonetization, bankruptcy law, GST reforms, and “Make in India.” We argue that Mod…
Understanding the 'crisis of the institution' in the liberal trade order at the WTO
The liberal trade order is in crisis. I argue that the origins of the current crises lie in the underlying tension which exists in the World Trade Organization (WTO), magnified by a churning in global power dynamics. A dilemma at the heart of the WTO between two important goals of representativeness and effectiveness means that both goals cannot be pursued at the same time. Now, this inherent tension is being magnified by power shifts in the glob…
A theory of reform consolidation in India
I use the policy feedback literature to present an argument regarding the new politics of reform consolidation in India. India’s reform trajectory can be understood in terms of three distinct phases of reforms interspersed by periods of slowdown. In this narrative that goes beyond 1991, an analysis of struggles, opponents, and reversals become important, revealing a more contested pathway. In the 2000s India has moved beyond the initial, crisis-d…
The Spectral Presence of Business in India’s 2019 Election
Shifts in the balance of India’s economy towards private production have re-opened a debate over the role of the business in its polity. Business interests have found new ways to influence the state at different levels and through multiple institutions. This article concentrates on the composition of the 17th Lok Sabha and its porosity towards business (around 28.4% of these MPs have self-reported business careers). A growing of number of ‘indust…
Building a Theory of Change in International Relations
Fundamental transformations in the distribution of power among nations have re-focused the attention of the International Relations (IR) subfield on how to understand change and power transitions. I add to this larger literature by presenting a typology of change drawn from comparative politics that incorporates attention to incremental or slow moving change, and path-dependence as a theoretical tool to explain discontinuous change such as wars, …
Books by Our Readers
As Routledge's new text for public diplomacy courses, this book offers a modern guide for how to practice strategic communication around the globe. Drawing upon interviews
Understanding change and continuity in India's foreign policy
The field of Indian foreign policy is rich and wide ranging, offering new empirical material across a broad array of topics and relationships. This article reviews three recent books on the subject, with an eye towards evaluating change amid continuity in the pursuit of Indian foreign policy. This scholarship calls out for a new paradigm to understand India's changing position and actions at global, regional and domestic levels. I argue that Indi…
A Distinctive Indian Political Economy
This article discusses Rudolphs’ contribution to the study of India’s political economy. Taking off from the ideas they presented in their work, In Pursuit of Lakshmi, the article argues that certain concepts, such as Bullock capitalists, demand-led growth, involuted pluralism, federal market economy and state as a third actor, continue to be critical in understanding India. Through these conceptual innovations, Rudolph and Rudolph not only analy…
Scaling Up
It no longer makes sense to talk of India without analyzing its infra-national diversity. Yet, this article not only argues for the need to build upon but also go beyond the subnational comparative analysis for India. I make three related points.While scholars exploit the variation easily found at the provincial level in India, they must also take their subnational insights and generalize about India as a whole
State Transformation and the Role of Lawyers
This article explains the impact of India's engagement with the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on both the Indian state and on the WTO itself. In each case, it explains the role of Indian lawyers within the larger transnational context. In engaging with globalization and the WTO, India has transformed itself. The Indian state has moved toward a new developmental state model involving a stronger emphasis on trade, greater government tra…
Indian Political Studies
Democracy, History, and Economic Performance
India
In 2009–2010 India faces dramatically different foreign policy challenges than it faced even ten years ago. Similar to other ascendant powers such as China and Brazil but unlike smaller powers, India must not only cope with a transformed international system and project the country's global aspirations, but also ensure that its emergence as a rising power responds to its domestic dilemmas and constraints. India's actions and aspirations on the gl…
Political Cycles, Political Institutions and Public Expenditure in India, 1980–2000
In Western democracies it is held that parties and their positions affect how politicians choose to make public expenditure and investment. This article examines the public policy choices of politicians in India, a large well-established democracy with remarkable subnational variation. Public expenditure, from education and health to agriculture and irrigation, is analysed. Counterintuitive findings – that election timing and political factors pl…
Locked in Place
Locked in Place: State Building and Late Industrialization in India. By Vivek Chibber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. 334p. $49.50 cloth, $22.95 paper. Despite the newfound optimism about the turnaround in the Indian economy, this book's arguments about the failure of the postcolonial state to build a developmental state in the 1950s and 1960s are original, important, and relevant. Vivek Chibber's Locked in Place sets out to dispel …
India’s Unlikely Democracy
There is no doubt that India’s democracy has become stable, yet economic change could create distributional conflicts and stresses on its democratic institutions. Economic change and liberalization have served to reinforce and further stabilize democracy rather than undermining it. This has happened partly because of the nature of economic and social transition, which has allowed the rich many options in the private, urban, and global economy. Si…
Global Linkages and Domestic Politics
This article examines how the World Trade Organization (WTO) affects institutional development and policy responses in India. India is a country traditionally resistant to external pressures but in which participation in an international organization stimulated a transformation in trade policy processes and procedures and unleashed a new bureaucratic politics, institutional innovation, and activation of policy—expert linkages. The author argues t…
Understanding the Rise and Transformation of Business Collective Action in India
Scholars of business associations have recently learned a great deal about how associations contribute to development, but much less about the origins of such developmental associations. This essay introduces and assesses a new political explanation for the origins of ‘developmental associations.’ Conventional wisdom holds that developmental associations must be able to rise above political and collusive pressures and establish autonomy from stat…
Political Cycles, Political Institutions and Public Expenditure in India, 1980–2000
In Western democracies it is held that parties and their positions affect how politicians choose to make public expenditure and investment. This article examines the public policy choices of politicians in India, a large well-established democracy with remarkable subnational variation. Public expenditure, from education and health to agriculture and irrigation, is analysed. Counterintuitive findings – that election timing and political factors pl…
India
In 2009–2010 India faces dramatically different foreign policy challenges than it faced even ten years ago. Similar to other ascendant powers such as China and Brazil but unlike smaller powers, India must not only cope with a transformed international system and project the country's global aspirations, but also ensure that its emergence as a rising power responds to its domestic dilemmas and constraints. India's actions and aspirations on the gl…
Locked in Place
Locked in Place: State Building and Late Industrialization in India. By Vivek Chibber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. 334p. $49.50 cloth, $22.95 paper. Despite the newfound optimism about the turnaround in the Indian economy, this book's arguments about the failure of the postcolonial state to build a developmental state in the 1950s and 1960s are original, important, and relevant. Vivek Chibber's Locked in Place sets out to dispel …
Paternalism, Patronage, and Potlatch
The intention of this article is to call anthropologists' attention to some of the theoretical and applied implications of paternalism and to report findings from field research on this question. Having defined paternalism as interference with another's autonomy justified in terms of the wish to benefit him, the article focusses on state (or bureaucratic) paternalism. Its principal concern is the effect of paternalism on corporate groups and cate…
Rethinking the Developmental State Model
For some time, concept of developmental has been at center of debate in comparative political economy.1 It encompasses view that intervention is necessary not merely to correct for market failures arising out of scarce capital, externalities, and technological improvement but also to achieve long-term capital accumulation and society-wide developmental goals. While history of concept of developmental may lie with economist Friedrich List, its rec…
Political Foundations of Market-Enhancing Federalism
In recent times, decentralization and federalism have been suggested as solutions for multiple crises facing the world. Decentralization is seen to be good for democracy, for markets, and for governance.1 A powerful impetus for the idea and practice of decentralization arises from the simultaneous processes of economic globalization underway in much of the world. Economic liberalization, it is argued, is compatible with and requires decentralizat…
State Transformation and the Role of Lawyers
This article explains the impact of India's engagement with the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on both the Indian state and on the WTO itself. In each case, it explains the role of Indian lawyers within the larger transnational context. In engaging with globalization and the WTO, India has transformed itself. The Indian state has moved toward a new developmental state model involving a stronger emphasis on trade, greater government tra…
The Changing Political Economy of Federalism in India
In July 1991 India's central government initiated economic policy reforms amounting to a quiet economic revolution—or, as noted by a commentator, “reform by stealth.”Policy regimes in the industrial, macroeconomic, and trade sectors were transformed slowly but surely. These policy changes have persisted in fits and starts, yet in 2002 there was talk of the onset of the “second generation of reforms.”
Scaling Up
It no longer makes sense to talk of India without analyzing its infra-national diversity. Yet, this article not only argues for the need to build upon but also go beyond the subnational comparative analysis for India. I make three related points.While scholars exploit the variation easily found at the provincial level in India, they must also take their subnational insights and generalize about India as a whole
Democracy, History, and Economic Performance
Global Linkages and Domestic Politics
This article examines how the World Trade Organization (WTO) affects institutional development and policy responses in India. India is a country traditionally resistant to external pressures but in which participation in an international organization stimulated a transformation in trade policy processes and procedures and unleashed a new bureaucratic politics, institutional innovation, and activation of policy—expert linkages. The author argues t…
The Spectral Presence of Business in India’s 2019 Election
Shifts in the balance of India’s economy towards private production have re-opened a debate over the role of the business in its polity. Business interests have found new ways to influence the state at different levels and through multiple institutions. This article concentrates on the composition of the 17th Lok Sabha and its porosity towards business (around 28.4% of these MPs have self-reported business careers). A growing of number of ‘indust…
The Internal Dynamics of the Early State [and Comments and Reply]
This article addresses the question of why only some early states develop into mature ones. The main differences between the two types of states having been outlined, four fields are indicated in which changes may take place. The field of the societal format involves problems of infrastructure, communication, and control. The field of economic development includes such aspects as trade and markets and the income and expenditures of the state. In …
Economic distress amidst political success
Narendra Modi came to power in 2014 promising robust economic management and more employment. The campaign promise of “maximum governance, minimum government,” created hope that Modi would transform India’s economy by removing obstacles to growth and job creation. We assess the Modi government’s economic policies from 2014–2019 focusing on salient initiatives like demonetization, bankruptcy law, GST reforms, and “Make in India.” We argue that Mod…
India’s Unlikely Democracy
There is no doubt that India’s democracy has become stable, yet economic change could create distributional conflicts and stresses on its democratic institutions. Economic change and liberalization have served to reinforce and further stabilize democracy rather than undermining it. This has happened partly because of the nature of economic and social transition, which has allowed the rich many options in the private, urban, and global economy. Si…
Building a Theory of Change in International Relations
Fundamental transformations in the distribution of power among nations have re-focused the attention of the International Relations (IR) subfield on how to understand change and power transitions. I add to this larger literature by presenting a typology of change drawn from comparative politics that incorporates attention to incremental or slow moving change, and path-dependence as a theoretical tool to explain discontinuous change such as wars, …
Understanding the 'crisis of the institution' in the liberal trade order at the WTO
The liberal trade order is in crisis. I argue that the origins of the current crises lie in the underlying tension which exists in the World Trade Organization (WTO), magnified by a churning in global power dynamics. A dilemma at the heart of the WTO between two important goals of representativeness and effectiveness means that both goals cannot be pursued at the same time. Now, this inherent tension is being magnified by power shifts in the glob…
India Briefing
Foreword Map of South Asia Map of India Introduction. India Briefing: Takeoff at Last? - Philip K. Oldenburg and Alyssa Ayres Politics: The BJP Falls from Power - Niraja Gopal Jayal Indian Economy: New Pathways to Growth and Development - Isher Judge Ahluwalia India's International Relations: The Search for Stability, Space, and Strength - Amitabh Mattoo The Cultural Background of Hindutva, Richard H. Davis Work and Wealth - Renana Jhabvala The B…
Analyzing the Diversity of a Large Emerging Market
Like other large emerging markets, India’s economy cannot be understood without explaining significant sectoral variations within manufacturing and services. Diverse and persistent sectoral patterns reveal the inadequacies of a dirigisme-liberalization frame that relies on a state versus market dichotomy adopted by most analyses of India’s political economy. Rather, each sector combines state and markets in diverse ways. Focusing on sectors, howe…
Critical juncture, learning and state capacity-in-motion
Precisely because public health crises are uncertain, complex and have multiple dimensions, deeper institutional state capacity is needed. This article develops an approach to thinking about state capacity by incorporating time as a key component of a refurbished idea of state capacity. This reorientation helps us understand the specific mechanisms, especially of learning – that were crucial for the success of East Asian cases in managing the COV…
Willing' ethnic-nationalists, diffusion, and resentment in India
Using evidence regarding the consolidation of Hindu nationalism in India we put forward new ethnographic data about the variety of popular support for a Hindutva project and a new framework that proposes an interactive theory of social identity. This framework helps us understand how Hindu nationalism becomes embedded in society. We assert that Hindu nationalism in India could be fruitfully analysed by focusing on the processes through which idea…
India in a changing global world
Building upon a vast literature and Ministry of External Affairs Annual reports, this article argues that India’s foreign actions through its 75 years are not only domestically generated. Analysis of India’s foreign relations must include an assessment of changing global structures and how they affect domestic imperatives. A ‘inside-outside’ perspective, with a focus on India’s ideas and actions, must to be combined with an ‘outside-in’ analysis.…
A theory of reform consolidation in India
I use the policy feedback literature to present an argument regarding the new politics of reform consolidation in India. India’s reform trajectory can be understood in terms of three distinct phases of reforms interspersed by periods of slowdown. In this narrative that goes beyond 1991, an analysis of struggles, opponents, and reversals become important, revealing a more contested pathway. In the 2000s India has moved beyond the initial, crisis-d…
Understanding change and continuity in India's foreign policy
The field of Indian foreign policy is rich and wide ranging, offering new empirical material across a broad array of topics and relationships. This article reviews three recent books on the subject, with an eye towards evaluating change amid continuity in the pursuit of Indian foreign policy. This scholarship calls out for a new paradigm to understand India's changing position and actions at global, regional and domestic levels. I argue that Indi…
A Distinctive Indian Political Economy
This article discusses Rudolphs’ contribution to the study of India’s political economy. Taking off from the ideas they presented in their work, In Pursuit of Lakshmi, the article argues that certain concepts, such as Bullock capitalists, demand-led growth, involuted pluralism, federal market economy and state as a third actor, continue to be critical in understanding India. Through these conceptual innovations, Rudolph and Rudolph not only analy…
The Internal Dynamics of the Early State [and Comments and Reply]
This article addresses the question of why only some early states develop into mature ones. The main differences between the two types of states having been outlined, four fields are indicated in which changes may take place. The field of the societal format involves problems of infrastructure, communication, and control. The field of economic development includes such aspects as trade and markets and the income and expenditures of the state. In …
Paternalism, Patronage, and Potlatch
The intention of this article is to call anthropologists' attention to some of the theoretical and applied implications of paternalism and to report findings from field research on this question. Having defined paternalism as interference with another's autonomy justified in terms of the wish to benefit him, the article focusses on state (or bureaucratic) paternalism. Its principal concern is the effect of paternalism on corporate groups and cate…
Death Acceptance
A formulation of death acceptance involving two components, confrontation and integration, is presented and discussed in the light of the literature on death attitudes. A proposed scale (Klug Death Acceptance Scale) to measure the two-component concept is also provided, including data on the scale's reliability and validity, along with some suggested norms. The contribution of this research is the clarification of the theoretical rationale for a …
Distribution of the ABO and RH Blood Groups in ADI (Mixed) Tribal Population of Arunachal Pradesh
Distribution of the ABO and Rh blood groups among the Adi (mixed) tribal population of East Siang District, Arunachal Pradesh was studied. The prevalence of blood group frequencies, A>0>B>AB, was fairly similar to that of their Mongoloid stock from South China. These frequencies have not changed very much from earlier reports despite the inter-tribal and tribal-nontribal marriages in recent years
Prototype Theory and the Conceptualisation of Culture
The empiricist-functionalist view considers "social structure" as "patterns of kinship and descent" assuming that kinship relationships provide the primary network through which culture can be understood. However, componential analysis has the problem of psychological validity. The model claims to present the actual semantic previews by which the native operator thinks, besides being an equivalent calculus that permits the ethnographer to predict…
Rethinking the Developmental State Model
For some time, concept of developmental has been at center of debate in comparative political economy.1 It encompasses view that intervention is necessary not merely to correct for market failures arising out of scarce capital, externalities, and technological improvement but also to achieve long-term capital accumulation and society-wide developmental goals. While history of concept of developmental may lie with economist Friedrich List, its rec…
The Changing Political Economy of Federalism in India
In July 1991 India's central government initiated economic policy reforms amounting to a quiet economic revolution—or, as noted by a commentator, “reform by stealth.”Policy regimes in the industrial, macroeconomic, and trade sectors were transformed slowly but surely. These policy changes have persisted in fits and starts, yet in 2002 there was talk of the onset of the “second generation of reforms.”
Understanding the Rise and Transformation of Business Collective Action in India
Scholars of business associations have recently learned a great deal about how associations contribute to development, but much less about the origins of such developmental associations. This essay introduces and assesses a new political explanation for the origins of ‘developmental associations.’ Conventional wisdom holds that developmental associations must be able to rise above political and collusive pressures and establish autonomy from stat…
India Briefing
Foreword Map of South Asia Map of India Introduction. India Briefing: Takeoff at Last? - Philip K. Oldenburg and Alyssa Ayres Politics: The BJP Falls from Power - Niraja Gopal Jayal Indian Economy: New Pathways to Growth and Development - Isher Judge Ahluwalia India's International Relations: The Search for Stability, Space, and Strength - Amitabh Mattoo The Cultural Background of Hindutva, Richard H. Davis Work and Wealth - Renana Jhabvala The B…
Political Foundations of Market-Enhancing Federalism
In recent times, decentralization and federalism have been suggested as solutions for multiple crises facing the world. Decentralization is seen to be good for democracy, for markets, and for governance.1 A powerful impetus for the idea and practice of decentralization arises from the simultaneous processes of economic globalization underway in much of the world. Economic liberalization, it is argued, is compatible with and requires decentralizat…
Locked in Place
Locked in Place: State Building and Late Industrialization in India. By Vivek Chibber. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. 334p. $49.50 cloth, $22.95 paper. Despite the newfound optimism about the turnaround in the Indian economy, this book's arguments about the failure of the postcolonial state to build a developmental state in the 1950s and 1960s are original, important, and relevant. Vivek Chibber's Locked in Place sets out to dispel …
India’s Unlikely Democracy
There is no doubt that India’s democracy has become stable, yet economic change could create distributional conflicts and stresses on its democratic institutions. Economic change and liberalization have served to reinforce and further stabilize democracy rather than undermining it. This has happened partly because of the nature of economic and social transition, which has allowed the rich many options in the private, urban, and global economy. Si…
Global Linkages and Domestic Politics
This article examines how the World Trade Organization (WTO) affects institutional development and policy responses in India. India is a country traditionally resistant to external pressures but in which participation in an international organization stimulated a transformation in trade policy processes and procedures and unleashed a new bureaucratic politics, institutional innovation, and activation of policy—expert linkages. The author argues t…
India
In 2009–2010 India faces dramatically different foreign policy challenges than it faced even ten years ago. Similar to other ascendant powers such as China and Brazil but unlike smaller powers, India must not only cope with a transformed international system and project the country's global aspirations, but also ensure that its emergence as a rising power responds to its domestic dilemmas and constraints. India's actions and aspirations on the gl…
Political Cycles, Political Institutions and Public Expenditure in India, 1980–2000
In Western democracies it is held that parties and their positions affect how politicians choose to make public expenditure and investment. This article examines the public policy choices of politicians in India, a large well-established democracy with remarkable subnational variation. Public expenditure, from education and health to agriculture and irrigation, is analysed. Counterintuitive findings – that election timing and political factors pl…
Democracy, History, and Economic Performance
Scaling Up
It no longer makes sense to talk of India without analyzing its infra-national diversity. Yet, this article not only argues for the need to build upon but also go beyond the subnational comparative analysis for India. I make three related points.While scholars exploit the variation easily found at the provincial level in India, they must also take their subnational insights and generalize about India as a whole
State Transformation and the Role of Lawyers
This article explains the impact of India's engagement with the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on both the Indian state and on the WTO itself. In each case, it explains the role of Indian lawyers within the larger transnational context. In engaging with globalization and the WTO, India has transformed itself. The Indian state has moved toward a new developmental state model involving a stronger emphasis on trade, greater government tra…
Indian Political Studies
A Distinctive Indian Political Economy
This article discusses Rudolphs’ contribution to the study of India’s political economy. Taking off from the ideas they presented in their work, In Pursuit of Lakshmi, the article argues that certain concepts, such as Bullock capitalists, demand-led growth, involuted pluralism, federal market economy and state as a third actor, continue to be critical in understanding India. Through these conceptual innovations, Rudolph and Rudolph not only analy…
Books by Our Readers
As Routledge's new text for public diplomacy courses, this book offers a modern guide for how to practice strategic communication around the globe. Drawing upon interviews
Understanding change and continuity in India's foreign policy
The field of Indian foreign policy is rich and wide ranging, offering new empirical material across a broad array of topics and relationships. This article reviews three recent books on the subject, with an eye towards evaluating change amid continuity in the pursuit of Indian foreign policy. This scholarship calls out for a new paradigm to understand India's changing position and actions at global, regional and domestic levels. I argue that Indi…
Building a Theory of Change in International Relations
Fundamental transformations in the distribution of power among nations have re-focused the attention of the International Relations (IR) subfield on how to understand change and power transitions. I add to this larger literature by presenting a typology of change drawn from comparative politics that incorporates attention to incremental or slow moving change, and path-dependence as a theoretical tool to explain discontinuous change such as wars, …
A theory of reform consolidation in India
I use the policy feedback literature to present an argument regarding the new politics of reform consolidation in India. India’s reform trajectory can be understood in terms of three distinct phases of reforms interspersed by periods of slowdown. In this narrative that goes beyond 1991, an analysis of struggles, opponents, and reversals become important, revealing a more contested pathway. In the 2000s India has moved beyond the initial, crisis-d…
The Spectral Presence of Business in India’s 2019 Election
Shifts in the balance of India’s economy towards private production have re-opened a debate over the role of the business in its polity. Business interests have found new ways to influence the state at different levels and through multiple institutions. This article concentrates on the composition of the 17th Lok Sabha and its porosity towards business (around 28.4% of these MPs have self-reported business careers). A growing of number of ‘indust…
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