Politics of Welfare: Comparisons Across Indian States

by Rajeshwari Deshpande and K. K. Kailash

Indian states are the main arenas in which popular expectations around healthcare, education, and social security intersect with electoral politics. Yet the ways in which state politics shape India s social welfare policies are inadequately understood.

After a decade of experimentation with new rights-based approaches to social policy at the national level, there is a pressing need to understand how regional political environments influence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199460124
• ISBN13: 9780199460120
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.7"