Understanding Contemporary Indian Federalism: Competing Perspectives, New Challenges and Future Directions

ISBN-13: 9780367892739 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 184 str.

Chanchal Kumar Sharma; Wilfried Swenden

Opis

This book provides a new look at contemporary Indian federalism. It collects a number of contributions that consider centre-state dynamics in a number of fields (political economy, ethnic management and intergovernmental relations) from different methodological perspectives. The chapters originally published as a special issue in India Revie

Spis treści

1. Continuity and change in contemporary Indian federalism Chanchal Kumar Sharma and Wilfried Swenden  2. A situational theory of pork-barrel politics: The shifting logic of discretionary allocations in India Chanchal Kumar Sharma 3. Rethinking central planning: A federal critique of the Planning Commission Wilfried Swenden and Rekha Saxena 4. Continuity and change in Indian fiscal federalism Indira Rajaraman  5. States as laboratories: The politics of social welfare policies in India Rajeshwari Deshpande, K. K. Kailash, and Louise Tillin  6. Paradiplomacy of India’s chief ministers Andrew Wyatt 7. Does ethnofederalism explain the success of Indian federalism? Katharine Adeney 8. Indian federalism at the crossroads: Limits of the territorial management of ethnic conflict Harihar Bhattacharyya, Kham Khan Suan Hausing, and Jhumpa Mukherjee

O autorze

Chanchal Kumar Sharma is Senior Faculty at the Department of Political Science, Central University of Haryana, India; Associate Research Fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg and Fellow at the Centre for Multilevel Federalism, Institute of Social Sciences, Delhi, India.

Wilfried Swenden is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Science and Co-Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and Managing Editor of Regional and Federal Studies.