Add to ORKGOn 25 February 2015 Vivek Srinivasan, Liberation Technology Program Manager at Stanford University, gave a talk at LSE entitled “Can Modi dismantle India’s welfare programmes?” Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, he argued that sustained local-level popular demand for basic services mean that attempts by the government to reduce support are unlikely to prove sustainable in the long run. Sonali Campion reports on the event
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The idea of state responsibility for ensuring food security has gained ground, with strong popular m...
India found itself on the brink of economic collapse in early 1991. An emergency loan secured from t...
This case study is about the politics of malnutrition and the role of public action in fighting the ...
Compared to most other states in India, Tamil Nadu is noted for widespread provision of education, ...
How can clientelistic politics be transformed into programmatic politics in a subnational state with...
LSE’s Dr Manali Desai (Department of Sociology) along with Dr Indrajit Roy (Research Fellow at Queen...
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Clientelism is often blamed for public service delivery failures in developing countries. While the ...
Do political entrepreneurs always capture public resources for political benefit? This dissertation ...
This paper argues the performance of public service delivery under weak civil society. Drawing on in...
In this paper we empirically examine whether public facilities like providing primary school, medica...
This paper uses data on elected village councils in South India to examine the political economy of ...
In Part 1 of this post, LSE’s Dr Manali Desai (Department of Sociology) and Dr Indrajit Roy (Researc...
KumKum Dasgupta analyses the Aam Aadmi Party’s decision to forge alliances with development professi...
This paper analysis the impact of collective action and political participation on the economic deve...
The idea of state responsibility for ensuring food security has gained ground, with strong popular m...
India found itself on the brink of economic collapse in early 1991. An emergency loan secured from t...
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