Rahul Mukherji
Biographic Data
| ID | 717879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rahul Mukherji |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rahul |
| FAMILY NAME | Mukherji |
| SIGNATURE | MUKHERJI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0223-7135 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Policy styles and India’s national action plan on climate change (NAPCC)
This article assesses India’s policy style, with respect to climate change particularly the launch of the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC). The NAPCC was India’s first significant climate policy document that demonstrates a paradigm shift from the “structural conflict” policy paradigm towards “embedded liberalism”. Policy ideas favouring “embedded liberalism” emerged from the Indian state were significant for the formulation of the …
How to Stop India's Authoritatarian Slide
Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in 2014, the India's democracy has flagged. Modi's government has been squeezing civic space, attacking the press, political opponents, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and stoking ethnic tensions. The state has also used an array of laws to harass critics of the regime. Yet there is still a chance that the power of the vote will lead …
India's Democracy
This paper explains and corroborates the mechanisms by which civic and political spaces opposed to Hindu nationalism have been attacked, especially after the arrival of the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in 2014. Three mechanisms are discerned for replacing pluralistic values with Hindu majoritarian ones. Sometimes institutions are just allowed to drift by interpreting old rules in new ways. For example, no f…
Perspectives on Inclusive Policies for Development in India
Governing India
How can clientelistic politics be transformed into programmatic politics in a subnational state with a well-recorded history of patronage politics? We explore institutional pathways away from clientelism by systematically explicating clientelistic propensities with programmatic citizen-oriented ones in undivided Andhra Pradesh. This paper engages with a paradigm shift in policy from clientelistic to programmatic service delivery in rural developm…
Covid vs. Democracy
The world's largest democracy is sliding toward competitive authoritarianism, and the covid-19 pandemic has sped it along the way. In responding to the virus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government not only imposed a strict nationwide lockdown—with devastating collateral damage—but also adopted a governing style that weakened the position of India's states and cut the parliamentary opposition out of decision making…
Recht Und Entwicklung Allgemein / Law and Development in General
Introduction
This series of papers on Globalization, Institutional Change, and Politics of reforms in India highlights some of the key characteristics of institutional change and globalization in India. This special issue points in the direction of three important conjectures on globalization and change by bringing together a few key aspects of the process of institutional change and engagement with the global in India. First, India’s liberal democracy has em…
State Capacity and Welfare Politics in India
This article argues that the Indian state can develop the capacity to deliver economic rights in a citizen-friendly way, despite serious challenges posed by patronage politics and clientelism. Clientelistic politics reveals why the Indian state fails to deliver the basic rights such as the right to work, health and education. We argue that the ability of the state to deliver owes a lot to bureaucratic puzzling and political powering over developm…
Governance reform in a weak state
India-Singapore Bilateral Relations (1965–2012)
This paper is a critical historical analysis of the trajectory of geo-political and economic relations between India and Singapore. This paper argues that India’s perception of its interests and its geopolitical orientation towards the Cold War prevented India’s security and economic integration with Southeast Asia. Apart from geopolitics, the economic orientation of India was also a critical factor that influenced the trajectory of India – Singa…
How Colonial Legacies Still Shape Indian Governance
India Since 1980
Ideas, interests, and the tipping point
This paper makes the case for a ‘tipping point’ model for understanding economic change in India. This gradual and largely endogenously driven path calls for the simultaneous consideration of ideas and politics. Exogenous shocks affected economic policy, but did not determine the course of economic history in India. India's developmental model evolved out of new ideas Indian technocrats developed based on events they observed in India and other p…
Diaspora, development and diamonds
A Tiger Despite the Chains
Powerful political interests still stand in the way of India's realizing its economic potential.”
Introduction
The State, Economic Growth, and Development in India
Interests, Wireless Technology, and Institutional Change
This paper explores the causes behind the institutional change that promoted regulated private-sector competition in India's booming telecommunications sector. This change occurred incrementally by resolving conflicts of interest driven by the twin engines of fiscal crisis and technological change in cellular telephony. The Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of Finance pushed for the change, whereas the Department of Telecommunications resi…
The Politics of Telecommunications Regulation
This paper explores the political economy of three significant policy decisions of the Congress–United Progressive Alliance government between November 2005 and February 2006. These decisions improved the regulatory incentives for the smaller and efficient firms in the Indian GSM industry, which were heavily dependent on foreign investment for their expansion. India's telecommunications sector became more attractive to foreign investors as a resu…
Digitised Trade Rules and India
Managing Competition
Globalization and the Politics of International Corporate Taxation
India's Aborted Liberalization-1966
W Ad thy did India not sustain its trade liberalization after devaluing its currency in 1966? Exogenous shocks (such as wars and droughts) leading to balance of payments crises can generate the transition from import substitution (ISI) towards export promotion.' When governments do not have much foreign exchange left to pay for their imports, they need the help of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since commercial lenders are not easily persu…
Ideas, interests, and the tipping point
This paper makes the case for a ‘tipping point’ model for understanding economic change in India. This gradual and largely endogenously driven path calls for the simultaneous consideration of ideas and politics. Exogenous shocks affected economic policy, but did not determine the course of economic history in India. India's developmental model evolved out of new ideas Indian technocrats developed based on events they observed in India and other p…
Covid vs. Democracy
The world's largest democracy is sliding toward competitive authoritarianism, and the covid-19 pandemic has sped it along the way. In responding to the virus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government not only imposed a strict nationwide lockdown—with devastating collateral damage—but also adopted a governing style that weakened the position of India's states and cut the parliamentary opposition out of decision making…
The State, Economic Growth, and Development in India
Managing Competition
India's Aborted Liberalization-1966
W Ad thy did India not sustain its trade liberalization after devaluing its currency in 1966? Exogenous shocks (such as wars and droughts) leading to balance of payments crises can generate the transition from import substitution (ISI) towards export promotion.' When governments do not have much foreign exchange left to pay for their imports, they need the help of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since commercial lenders are not easily persu…
How to Stop India's Authoritatarian Slide
Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in 2014, the India's democracy has flagged. Modi's government has been squeezing civic space, attacking the press, political opponents, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and stoking ethnic tensions. The state has also used an array of laws to harass critics of the regime. Yet there is still a chance that the power of the vote will lead …
India's Democracy
This paper explains and corroborates the mechanisms by which civic and political spaces opposed to Hindu nationalism have been attacked, especially after the arrival of the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in 2014. Three mechanisms are discerned for replacing pluralistic values with Hindu majoritarian ones. Sometimes institutions are just allowed to drift by interpreting old rules in new ways. For example, no f…
India-Singapore Bilateral Relations (1965–2012)
This paper is a critical historical analysis of the trajectory of geo-political and economic relations between India and Singapore. This paper argues that India’s perception of its interests and its geopolitical orientation towards the Cold War prevented India’s security and economic integration with Southeast Asia. Apart from geopolitics, the economic orientation of India was also a critical factor that influenced the trajectory of India – Singa…
Interests, Wireless Technology, and Institutional Change
This paper explores the causes behind the institutional change that promoted regulated private-sector competition in India's booming telecommunications sector. This change occurred incrementally by resolving conflicts of interest driven by the twin engines of fiscal crisis and technological change in cellular telephony. The Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of Finance pushed for the change, whereas the Department of Telecommunications resi…
Recht Und Entwicklung Allgemein / Law and Development in General
Governance reform in a weak state
How Colonial Legacies Still Shape Indian Governance
India's Aborted Liberalization-1966
W Ad thy did India not sustain its trade liberalization after devaluing its currency in 1966? Exogenous shocks (such as wars and droughts) leading to balance of payments crises can generate the transition from import substitution (ISI) towards export promotion.' When governments do not have much foreign exchange left to pay for their imports, they need the help of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since commercial lenders are not easily persu…
Digitised Trade Rules and India
Managing Competition
Globalization and the Politics of International Corporate Taxation
The Politics of Telecommunications Regulation
This paper explores the political economy of three significant policy decisions of the Congress–United Progressive Alliance government between November 2005 and February 2006. These decisions improved the regulatory incentives for the smaller and efficient firms in the Indian GSM industry, which were heavily dependent on foreign investment for their expansion. India's telecommunications sector became more attractive to foreign investors as a resu…
Introduction
The State, Economic Growth, and Development in India
Interests, Wireless Technology, and Institutional Change
This paper explores the causes behind the institutional change that promoted regulated private-sector competition in India's booming telecommunications sector. This change occurred incrementally by resolving conflicts of interest driven by the twin engines of fiscal crisis and technological change in cellular telephony. The Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of Finance pushed for the change, whereas the Department of Telecommunications resi…
A Tiger Despite the Chains
Powerful political interests still stand in the way of India's realizing its economic potential.”
India Since 1980
Ideas, interests, and the tipping point
This paper makes the case for a ‘tipping point’ model for understanding economic change in India. This gradual and largely endogenously driven path calls for the simultaneous consideration of ideas and politics. Exogenous shocks affected economic policy, but did not determine the course of economic history in India. India's developmental model evolved out of new ideas Indian technocrats developed based on events they observed in India and other p…
Diaspora, development and diamonds
How Colonial Legacies Still Shape Indian Governance
India-Singapore Bilateral Relations (1965–2012)
This paper is a critical historical analysis of the trajectory of geo-political and economic relations between India and Singapore. This paper argues that India’s perception of its interests and its geopolitical orientation towards the Cold War prevented India’s security and economic integration with Southeast Asia. Apart from geopolitics, the economic orientation of India was also a critical factor that influenced the trajectory of India – Singa…
Governance reform in a weak state
State Capacity and Welfare Politics in India
This article argues that the Indian state can develop the capacity to deliver economic rights in a citizen-friendly way, despite serious challenges posed by patronage politics and clientelism. Clientelistic politics reveals why the Indian state fails to deliver the basic rights such as the right to work, health and education. We argue that the ability of the state to deliver owes a lot to bureaucratic puzzling and political powering over developm…
Introduction
This series of papers on Globalization, Institutional Change, and Politics of reforms in India highlights some of the key characteristics of institutional change and globalization in India. This special issue points in the direction of three important conjectures on globalization and change by bringing together a few key aspects of the process of institutional change and engagement with the global in India. First, India’s liberal democracy has em…
Governing India
How can clientelistic politics be transformed into programmatic politics in a subnational state with a well-recorded history of patronage politics? We explore institutional pathways away from clientelism by systematically explicating clientelistic propensities with programmatic citizen-oriented ones in undivided Andhra Pradesh. This paper engages with a paradigm shift in policy from clientelistic to programmatic service delivery in rural developm…
Covid vs. Democracy
The world's largest democracy is sliding toward competitive authoritarianism, and the covid-19 pandemic has sped it along the way. In responding to the virus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government not only imposed a strict nationwide lockdown—with devastating collateral damage—but also adopted a governing style that weakened the position of India's states and cut the parliamentary opposition out of decision making…
Recht Und Entwicklung Allgemein / Law and Development in General
Perspectives on Inclusive Policies for Development in India
India's Democracy
This paper explains and corroborates the mechanisms by which civic and political spaces opposed to Hindu nationalism have been attacked, especially after the arrival of the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in 2014. Three mechanisms are discerned for replacing pluralistic values with Hindu majoritarian ones. Sometimes institutions are just allowed to drift by interpreting old rules in new ways. For example, no f…
How to Stop India's Authoritatarian Slide
Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in 2014, the India's democracy has flagged. Modi's government has been squeezing civic space, attacking the press, political opponents, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and stoking ethnic tensions. The state has also used an array of laws to harass critics of the regime. Yet there is still a chance that the power of the vote will lead …
Policy styles and India’s national action plan on climate change (NAPCC)
This article assesses India’s policy style, with respect to climate change particularly the launch of the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC). The NAPCC was India’s first significant climate policy document that demonstrates a paradigm shift from the “structural conflict” policy paradigm towards “embedded liberalism”. Policy ideas favouring “embedded liberalism” emerged from the Indian state were significant for the formulation of the …
Political science (23 works) · Economics (19 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (14 works) · Indian Economic and Social Development (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Political economy (11 works) · State (computer science (8 works) · Development economics (7 works)