Governing Locally

Institutions, Policies and Implementation in Indian Cities

Babu Jacob, Suraj Jacob (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

318 Seiten

2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-83234-2 (ISBN)

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The book discusses ways to reclaim the ability to govern locally and to effectively deliver services. Policy practitioners, scholars and advocacy groups will value the book's explanation of how city governments and state governments operate, and how controlling state governments drain out city government capacity to deliver.

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.

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. Suraj Jacob is a political economist and currently teaches economics at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. He is also affiliated with CDS, Trivandrum. He has worked as CEO of Vidya Bhawan, a 600-employee NGO in southern Rajasthan.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.02.2022
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 236 mm
Gewicht	550 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-108-83234-2 / 1108832342
ISBN-13	978-1-108-83234-2 / 9781108832342
Zustand	Neuware