Diego Maiorano
Biographic Data
| ID | 753777 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diego Maiorano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diego |
| FAMILY NAME | Maiorano |
| SIGNATURE | MAIORANO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Wl-6398-Unfulfilled Promises: The Reality of Cash Transfers in Andhra Pradesh’s Tribal Areas
This paper examines the efficacy of two key cash transfer programs in Andhra Pradesh—Rythu Barosa and Jagananna Amma Vodi—within the context of the state's broader welfare agenda. These programs, part of the YSR-Congress government’s emphasis on direct cash transfers, aim to provide financial support to various marginalized groups. The paper addresses two central questions: to what extent were the intended beneficiaries, particularly tribal commu…
India 2022: Political realignments in a bjp-dominated system
sciorati, China 2021-2022: A foreign policy of «re-branding»
India 2017: Narendra Modi’s continuing hegemony and his challenge to China
Democratic backsliding amid the Covid-19 pandemic in India
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic led many analysts to worry about the fate of global democracy, as governments the world over centralised power and enacted emergency legislation. In India, the world’s largest democracy, this prediction has turned out to be accurate. However, this article will argue that the pandemic was a mere accelerator of existing trends there. The erosion of democratic institutions in India since the advent of the BJP-le…
Politics as Negotiation: Changing Caste Norms in Rural India
This article analyses processes of social change in rural India through an ethnographic analysis of everyday politics in two Indian states, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Its main argument is that even if overt resistance or 'noisy' collective action by the poor is rarely seen, a great deal of social change is occurring through a subtle 'politics of negotiation' whereby poor, low-caste agricultural labourers are questioning social norms that u…
India 2021: Politics amid the pandemic
Asia Maior
The Politics of Claim-Making in India
How do Indian citizens access the state? While a standard answer would be "through patronage," three recent books show that clientelism, while important, is just part of the story. Not just passive clients at the mercy of their political patrons, Indian citizens actively engage the state and their representatives to make claims and secure what is due to them. Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner's Claiming the State-Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rur…
India 2019: The general election and the new Modi wave
agenda barbara onnis, China's 2019: Xi Jinping's tireless summit diplomacy amid growing challenges axel berkoFsky, Mongolia 2019: Crisis, obstacles & achievements on the domestic, economic and foreign policy fronts
Measuring empowerment: Choices, values and norms
India 2018: Political uncertainty and economic difficulties
In 2018, India's internal evolution was characterised, at the political level, by two main developments, both a continuation of trends already visible the previous year.The first was the weakening of Modi's aura of invincibility, epitomised by a string of defeats suffered by the BJP in that year's state elections.The second was the alarming continuation in the erosion of democracy, highlighted, among other negative processes, by the attack on the…
India 2020: Under the Covid hammer
policy characterized by growing resilience, fading responsibility and increasing uncertainty
Empowerment mechanisms- employment guarantee, women and Dalits in India
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in India opens a new chapter in rural governance, signifying transformative potential for enhancing economic and social security. One of the key objectives of the Act is to aid in the empowerment of marginalised communities, especially women, Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs). However, no analytically rigorous attempt has been made to study the mechanisms and proce…
Post-clientelistic initiatives in a patronage democracy: The distributive politics of India’s MGNREGA
The 2019 Indian Elections and the Ruralization of the BJP
The Indian general elections occurred amid a widespread and severe agricultural crisis. Many analysts thought that this could have a substantial impact on the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prospects to remain in office. This article, using post poll data, analyses the voting behaviour of two key sections of the electorate, the rural poor and the farmers. It shows that the BJP drew substantial support from both categories, across caste …
India at 70: Introduction to the Basas 2017 Special Issue
This introduction to the 2017 Annual Conference of the British Association for South Asian Studies offers an overview of the collection of selected articles presented at the conference. Overall, the Special issue consists of six articles, including four research articles addressing a wide range of topics spanning from the role of women during the Emergency rule (1975–1977) to the difficult relationship between minorities and the Hindu majority in…
HTTPS: //Www.asiamaior.org/the-journal/09-asia-maior-vol-xxvii-2016/india-2016.html
Labour, state and society in rural India: A class-relational approach
Poverty reduction, inequalities and human development in the BRICS: Policies and outcomes
This paper assesses headway made by governments in Brazil, India, China and South Africa in pursuing three goals: reducing income poverty; reaching the poorest of the poor and reducing inequality. Outcomes vary as we move up the ladder from the first and easiest of these challenges to the third and most daunting. Then the definition of poverty is broadened to include severe shortage of opportunities, liberties and capabilities. The paper discusse…
The limits of prescription: Courts and social policy in India and South Africa
This paper explores the social policy-making role of supreme courts in India and South Africa. It argues that both significantly shaped social policy. But neither imposed its will on elected government – both recognised that judicial power is limited and sought negotiation with the government and other interests to ensure compliance with rulings. Despite the difference between them, both courts promote and support collective action by the poor or…
MGNREGA, Power Politics, and Computerization in Andhra Pradesh
The link between e-governance and accountability of state administrations for service provision has been problematized in the literature to date. However, little is known about its application to anti-poverty programmes, of which public workfare schemes are an increasingly important subset. In this paper, we fill the gap with a study of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), India’s largest workfare scheme, as it is…
India 2015: The uncertain record of the Modi government
The paradoxes of empowerment: Gendering NREGA in the rural landscape of India
The growing importance of public works programmes (PWPs) as a social protection tool has attracted significant scholarly attention. However, despite the fact that the empowerment of marginalised communities is one of the key objectives of most PWPs, scant attention has been dedicated to this crucial issue. We contextualise these concerns in relation to India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). In particular, we propo…
Mrs Gandhi’s Legacy, 30 Years On
The Politics of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Andhra Pradesh
Indian Institutions in the Early 1980s: The pre-history of the great transformation
In 1989 India's political system underwent a process of profound change which affected the entire institutional setup of the country. Power was radically redistributed-it began to flow from the central government to the states, and from the Prime Minister's Office to the other institutions of the state. By analysing the severe institutional crisis which occurred during Mrs Gandhi's final term in office, this paper seeks to show how state institut…
The Politics of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Andhra Pradesh
Post-clientelistic initiatives in a patronage democracy: The distributive politics of India’s MGNREGA
Measuring empowerment: Choices, values and norms
Empowerment mechanisms- employment guarantee, women and Dalits in India
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in India opens a new chapter in rural governance, signifying transformative potential for enhancing economic and social security. One of the key objectives of the Act is to aid in the empowerment of marginalised communities, especially women, Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs). However, no analytically rigorous attempt has been made to study the mechanisms and proce…
Poverty reduction, inequalities and human development in the BRICS: Policies and outcomes
This paper assesses headway made by governments in Brazil, India, China and South Africa in pursuing three goals: reducing income poverty; reaching the poorest of the poor and reducing inequality. Outcomes vary as we move up the ladder from the first and easiest of these challenges to the third and most daunting. Then the definition of poverty is broadened to include severe shortage of opportunities, liberties and capabilities. The paper discusse…
The 2019 Indian Elections and the Ruralization of the BJP
The Indian general elections occurred amid a widespread and severe agricultural crisis. Many analysts thought that this could have a substantial impact on the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prospects to remain in office. This article, using post poll data, analyses the voting behaviour of two key sections of the electorate, the rural poor and the farmers. It shows that the BJP drew substantial support from both categories, across caste …
MGNREGA, Power Politics, and Computerization in Andhra Pradesh
The link between e-governance and accountability of state administrations for service provision has been problematized in the literature to date. However, little is known about its application to anti-poverty programmes, of which public workfare schemes are an increasingly important subset. In this paper, we fill the gap with a study of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), India’s largest workfare scheme, as it is…
Politics as Negotiation: Changing Caste Norms in Rural India
This article analyses processes of social change in rural India through an ethnographic analysis of everyday politics in two Indian states, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Its main argument is that even if overt resistance or 'noisy' collective action by the poor is rarely seen, a great deal of social change is occurring through a subtle 'politics of negotiation' whereby poor, low-caste agricultural labourers are questioning social norms that u…
The Politics of Claim-Making in India
How do Indian citizens access the state? While a standard answer would be "through patronage," three recent books show that clientelism, while important, is just part of the story. Not just passive clients at the mercy of their political patrons, Indian citizens actively engage the state and their representatives to make claims and secure what is due to them. Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner's Claiming the State-Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rur…
The limits of prescription: Courts and social policy in India and South Africa
This paper explores the social policy-making role of supreme courts in India and South Africa. It argues that both significantly shaped social policy. But neither imposed its will on elected government – both recognised that judicial power is limited and sought negotiation with the government and other interests to ensure compliance with rulings. Despite the difference between them, both courts promote and support collective action by the poor or…
The paradoxes of empowerment: Gendering NREGA in the rural landscape of India
The growing importance of public works programmes (PWPs) as a social protection tool has attracted significant scholarly attention. However, despite the fact that the empowerment of marginalised communities is one of the key objectives of most PWPs, scant attention has been dedicated to this crucial issue. We contextualise these concerns in relation to India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). In particular, we propo…
Mrs. Gandhi's Final Term and the Remaking of the Congress (I)'s Social Base
This article examines the impact that national economic policies adopted during Indira Gandhi's final term in office (1980–84) had on four “national” social groups, namely the big industrialists, the middle class, the rich peasantry, and the poor. The study argues that the Congress (I) chose the former two as its major allies, while the rich peasantry and the poor were relegated to a secondary position. In the process, the focus of India's strate…
The Politics of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Andhra Pradesh
Indian Institutions in the Early 1980s: The pre-history of the great transformation
In 1989 India's political system underwent a process of profound change which affected the entire institutional setup of the country. Power was radically redistributed-it began to flow from the central government to the states, and from the Prime Minister's Office to the other institutions of the state. By analysing the severe institutional crisis which occurred during Mrs Gandhi's final term in office, this paper seeks to show how state institut…
Mrs Gandhi’s Legacy, 30 Years On
India 2015: The uncertain record of the Modi government
The paradoxes of empowerment: Gendering NREGA in the rural landscape of India
The growing importance of public works programmes (PWPs) as a social protection tool has attracted significant scholarly attention. However, despite the fact that the empowerment of marginalised communities is one of the key objectives of most PWPs, scant attention has been dedicated to this crucial issue. We contextualise these concerns in relation to India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). In particular, we propo…
HTTPS: //Www.asiamaior.org/the-journal/09-asia-maior-vol-xxvii-2016/india-2016.html
Labour, state and society in rural India: A class-relational approach
Poverty reduction, inequalities and human development in the BRICS: Policies and outcomes
This paper assesses headway made by governments in Brazil, India, China and South Africa in pursuing three goals: reducing income poverty; reaching the poorest of the poor and reducing inequality. Outcomes vary as we move up the ladder from the first and easiest of these challenges to the third and most daunting. Then the definition of poverty is broadened to include severe shortage of opportunities, liberties and capabilities. The paper discusse…
The limits of prescription: Courts and social policy in India and South Africa
This paper explores the social policy-making role of supreme courts in India and South Africa. It argues that both significantly shaped social policy. But neither imposed its will on elected government – both recognised that judicial power is limited and sought negotiation with the government and other interests to ensure compliance with rulings. Despite the difference between them, both courts promote and support collective action by the poor or…
MGNREGA, Power Politics, and Computerization in Andhra Pradesh
The link between e-governance and accountability of state administrations for service provision has been problematized in the literature to date. However, little is known about its application to anti-poverty programmes, of which public workfare schemes are an increasingly important subset. In this paper, we fill the gap with a study of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), India’s largest workfare scheme, as it is…
India at 70: Introduction to the Basas 2017 Special Issue
This introduction to the 2017 Annual Conference of the British Association for South Asian Studies offers an overview of the collection of selected articles presented at the conference. Overall, the Special issue consists of six articles, including four research articles addressing a wide range of topics spanning from the role of women during the Emergency rule (1975–1977) to the difficult relationship between minorities and the Hindu majority in…
India 2018: Political uncertainty and economic difficulties
In 2018, India's internal evolution was characterised, at the political level, by two main developments, both a continuation of trends already visible the previous year.The first was the weakening of Modi's aura of invincibility, epitomised by a string of defeats suffered by the BJP in that year's state elections.The second was the alarming continuation in the erosion of democracy, highlighted, among other negative processes, by the attack on the…
India 2020: Under the Covid hammer
policy characterized by growing resilience, fading responsibility and increasing uncertainty
Empowerment mechanisms- employment guarantee, women and Dalits in India
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in India opens a new chapter in rural governance, signifying transformative potential for enhancing economic and social security. One of the key objectives of the Act is to aid in the empowerment of marginalised communities, especially women, Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs). However, no analytically rigorous attempt has been made to study the mechanisms and proce…
Post-clientelistic initiatives in a patronage democracy: The distributive politics of India’s MGNREGA
The 2019 Indian Elections and the Ruralization of the BJP
The Indian general elections occurred amid a widespread and severe agricultural crisis. Many analysts thought that this could have a substantial impact on the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prospects to remain in office. This article, using post poll data, analyses the voting behaviour of two key sections of the electorate, the rural poor and the farmers. It shows that the BJP drew substantial support from both categories, across caste …
India 2019: The general election and the new Modi wave
agenda barbara onnis, China's 2019: Xi Jinping's tireless summit diplomacy amid growing challenges axel berkoFsky, Mongolia 2019: Crisis, obstacles & achievements on the domestic, economic and foreign policy fronts
Measuring empowerment: Choices, values and norms
India 2021: Politics amid the pandemic
Asia Maior
The Politics of Claim-Making in India
How do Indian citizens access the state? While a standard answer would be "through patronage," three recent books show that clientelism, while important, is just part of the story. Not just passive clients at the mercy of their political patrons, Indian citizens actively engage the state and their representatives to make claims and secure what is due to them. Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner's Claiming the State-Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rur…
Democratic backsliding amid the Covid-19 pandemic in India
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic led many analysts to worry about the fate of global democracy, as governments the world over centralised power and enacted emergency legislation. In India, the world’s largest democracy, this prediction has turned out to be accurate. However, this article will argue that the pandemic was a mere accelerator of existing trends there. The erosion of democratic institutions in India since the advent of the BJP-le…
Politics as Negotiation: Changing Caste Norms in Rural India
This article analyses processes of social change in rural India through an ethnographic analysis of everyday politics in two Indian states, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Its main argument is that even if overt resistance or 'noisy' collective action by the poor is rarely seen, a great deal of social change is occurring through a subtle 'politics of negotiation' whereby poor, low-caste agricultural labourers are questioning social norms that u…
India 2022: Political realignments in a bjp-dominated system
sciorati, China 2021-2022: A foreign policy of «re-branding»
India 2017: Narendra Modi’s continuing hegemony and his challenge to China
Political science (24 works) · Law (18 works) · Economics (15 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Development economics (7 works)