M Srivastava
Biographic Data
| ID | 50966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Srivastava |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Srivastava |
| SIGNATURE | SRIVASTAVA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1035-8220 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 328 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Seeing the state again
Decentralized Corruption or Corrupt Decentralization? Community Monitoring of Poverty-Alleviation Schemes in Eastern India
Seeing the State: Governance and Governmentality in India
Poor people confront the state on an everyday basis all over the world. But how do they see the state, and how are these engagements conducted? This book considers the Indian case where people's accounts, in particular in the countryside, are shaped by a series of encounters that are staged at the local level, and which are also informed by ideas that are circulated by the government and the broader development community. Drawing extensively on f…
The Everyday State and Political Society in Eastern India: Structuring Access to the Employment Assurance Scheme
The positive roles that political parties might play in development have recently been downplayed in favour of accounts of the virtues of civil society and participatory development. This article challenges some assumptions inherent in this shift in emphasis. It considers how political society has mediated the agency of the rural poor in three locales in eastern India in respect of the national demand-driven Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS). In …
Brainstorming, Modified Logframes and the Conversion of Research Hypotheses into Field Questions: Reflections from Team‐based Fieldwork in Eastern India
This paper considers some practical problems associated with organising large‐scale comparative field research in eastern India. The focus of the paper is on the use of brainstorming and “modified logframes” as two means by which hypotheses about the working of the local state from the point of view of the rural poor could be turned into concrete field questions. The paper is less concerned with ethical and positional issues relating to team‐base…
Making sense of the local state: Rent-seeking, vernacular society and the Employment Assurance Scheme in eastern India
This paper opens a window on the local state in eastern India. It studies the ways in which government officers in five districts of Bihar and West Bengal re-shaped one of India's major poverty alleviation programmes, the Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS). District and Block-level officials in Bihar converted a participatory programme of employment generation into a scheme for the construction of durable assets. Many poorer men and women obtained…
Seeing the State: Governance and Governmentality in India
Poor people confront the state on an everyday basis all over the world. But how do they see the state, and how are these engagements conducted? This book considers the Indian case where people's accounts, in particular in the countryside, are shaped by a series of encounters that are staged at the local level, and which are also informed by ideas that are circulated by the government and the broader development community. Drawing extensively on f…
Decentralized Corruption or Corrupt Decentralization? Community Monitoring of Poverty-Alleviation Schemes in Eastern India
Seeing the state again
Making sense of the local state: Rent-seeking, vernacular society and the Employment Assurance Scheme in eastern India
This paper opens a window on the local state in eastern India. It studies the ways in which government officers in five districts of Bihar and West Bengal re-shaped one of India's major poverty alleviation programmes, the Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS). District and Block-level officials in Bihar converted a participatory programme of employment generation into a scheme for the construction of durable assets. Many poorer men and women obtained…
Making sense of the local state: Rent-seeking, vernacular society and the Employment Assurance Scheme in eastern India
This paper opens a window on the local state in eastern India. It studies the ways in which government officers in five districts of Bihar and West Bengal re-shaped one of India's major poverty alleviation programmes, the Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS). District and Block-level officials in Bihar converted a participatory programme of employment generation into a scheme for the construction of durable assets. Many poorer men and women obtained…
The Everyday State and Political Society in Eastern India: Structuring Access to the Employment Assurance Scheme
The positive roles that political parties might play in development have recently been downplayed in favour of accounts of the virtues of civil society and participatory development. This article challenges some assumptions inherent in this shift in emphasis. It considers how political society has mediated the agency of the rural poor in three locales in eastern India in respect of the national demand-driven Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS). In …
Brainstorming, Modified Logframes and the Conversion of Research Hypotheses into Field Questions: Reflections from Team‐based Fieldwork in Eastern India
This paper considers some practical problems associated with organising large‐scale comparative field research in eastern India. The focus of the paper is on the use of brainstorming and “modified logframes” as two means by which hypotheses about the working of the local state from the point of view of the rural poor could be turned into concrete field questions. The paper is less concerned with ethical and positional issues relating to team‐base…
Seeing the State: Governance and Governmentality in India
Poor people confront the state on an everyday basis all over the world. But how do they see the state, and how are these engagements conducted? This book considers the Indian case where people's accounts, in particular in the countryside, are shaped by a series of encounters that are staged at the local level, and which are also informed by ideas that are circulated by the government and the broader development community. Drawing extensively on f…
Decentralized Corruption or Corrupt Decentralization? Community Monitoring of Poverty-Alleviation Schemes in Eastern India
Seeing the state again
Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Bureaucracy (2 works)