The Provision of Information Services in a New Political Economy
A Case Study from Hyderabad, India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3985456 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isa Mirza (0000-0003-2804-1173, SOAS University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 148-172 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2336 • E-ISSN: 1752-7554 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00472336.2012.731774 |
| OpenAlex | W1968782209 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
Evidence suggests that following liberalisation reforms in India, public sector contributions to social development projects responsible for public goods allocation and the provision of services have receded in favour of an enlarged role for private sector initiatives, particularly through public-private partnerships. As part of a “good governance” agenda, the state is embracing such partnerships, modelled on information communication technology (ICT), within a wider development strategy (ICTD) to improve goods allocation and government's image as a trustworthy agent. This has also coincided with a changing political economy that has granted greater authority to more localised units of government over economic and developmental processes. This paper examines a case study of Urban e-Seva, an ICTD public-private partnership in Hyderabad, and couches it in a larger examination of contemporary social development in India. The paper concludes that government needs to be embedded in public-private partnerships, that it must continue to be at the forefront of allocation strategies in general, and that globalisation is strongly shaped by public institutions operating at the sub-national level. Furthermore, reforms are needed to correct for globalisation and liberalisation's inabilities to foster proper social development in India
Business · Corporate governance · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Economy · General partnership · Globalization · Goods and services · Government (linguistics · Information and Communications Technology · Liberalization · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Private sector · Public good · Public sector · ICT Impact and Policies · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Urban and Rural Development Challenges
Anthropology, Politics, and the State
Embedded Autonomy
The progress of school education in India
Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries
Focus Groups as Qualitative Research
E-Governance Services Through Telecenters
The Growth and Sectoral Composition of India's Middle Class
Moving from clientelist politics toward a welfare regime
Public-Private Partnerships
Outsourcing the State? Public–Private Partnerships and Information Technologies in India
The political economy of public goods
Information-Based Global Economy and Socioeconomic Development
Federal Arrangements and the Provision of Public Goods in India
How Federalism Influences India's Domestic Politics of WTO Engagement (And Is Itself Affected in the Process)
India and the IT revolution
The Interface of Globalization and Peripheral Land in the Cities of the South
Coercive Policy Diffusion in a Developing Country
Bridging the Social and Digital Divides in Andhra Pradesh and Kerala
Seeing Like a State
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |