Himanshu Jha, Rahul Mukherjee, Subrata K Mitra, Raghbendra Jha

Capturing Institutional Change

The Case of the Right to Information ACT in India

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book in the Institutions and Development in South Asia series. It studies the historical institutionalism in the information regime in India by presenting an alternative narrative about the evolution of the RTI Act.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 145mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780190124786
• ISBN-10: 0190124784
• Artikelnr.: 60743918

Autorenporträt

Himanshu Jha is with the Department of Political Science, South Asia Institute at the Heidelberg University. Jha's most recent research explores the why, how, and what of institutional change. His current research interests lies in the area of institutional change, governance, distributive politics, state capacity, bureaucratic culture and the politics of climate change.

Inhaltsangabe

* Series Introduction
* Introduction
* 1. Nascent Ideas to Embedded Norms: Ideational Churning Within the
State
* 2. Changing State Thinking: Policy Movement Towards Right To
Information
* 3. Constitutional Interpretation by the Judiciary: Right to Know
Inherent In Article 19 (1) (A)
* 4. Social and Political Processes of State and Society: Progressive
Ideas and the Emergence of Epistemic Community
* 5. Do Global Norms Matter?
* Appendices
* Bibliography
* Index
* About the Author