Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India's Urban Slums

by Adam Michael Auerbach

Book Overview

India's urban slums exhibit dramatic variation in their access to local public goods and services - paved roads, piped water, trash removal, sewers, and streetlights. Why are some vulnerable communities able to demand and secure development from the state while others fail? Drawing on more than two years of fieldwork in the north Indian cities of Bhopal and Jaipur, Demanding Development accounts for the uneven success of India's slum residents in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108491936
• ISBN13: 9781108491938
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"