Babu Jacob

Governing Locally (eBook, PDF)

Institutions, Policies and Implementation in Indian Cities

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Produktbeschreibung

India and other countries chose a decentralised mode of delivering public services through elected local governments for increasing public welfare. However, great expectations of effective services, increased accountability and people's participation were widely belied in practice. Based on field research in cities of Gujarat, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, the book is a detailed examination of how state and local governments function and why decentralisation outcomes vary considerably. It locates the primary reason in governance practices that compromised autonomy and capacity of urban local governments. The book demonstrates that despite a constitutional mandate for decentralised governance, policy implementation got derailed in processes threading through laws, rules, and administrative actions. It shows how habitual practices create hidden institutional rigidities that thwart policy moves despite good intentions and democratic legitimacy. The book also discusses how to navigate policy to skirt hidden threats to successful implementation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009032346
• Artikelnr.: 66176484

Autorenporträt

Babu Jacob has worked with the Indian Administrative Service since 1968 at different levels and in different governance domains in the Kerala state government and the national government, including in domains with direct relevance to this book (urban governance and public works). He retired as the Chief Secretary to the Government of Kerala. He researches governance and was affiliated with the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Trivandrum.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Preface
List of Tables
List of Figures
Glossary
Abbreviations
Part I. Background: Chapter 1. Two Cities
Chapter 2. Approach and Argument
Part II. Local Capacity: Chapter 3. Running City Governments
Chapter 4. Organising City Governments
Part III. Accountability: Chapter 5. State-Local Relations
Chapter 6. Participation in City Governments
Part IV. Institutions, Policies and Implementation: Chapter 7. Theorising Decentralisation
Chapter 8. Governing Locally: Institutions and Policies
Chapter 9. Implementing 'Governing Locally'
References
Index.