Vision and Strategy in Indian Politics : Jawaharlal Nehru's Policy Choices and the Designing of Political Institutions

ISBN-13: 9780415615228 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 240 str.

Jivanta Schoettli

Opis

Analysing Indian policy-making from 1947-1964 under the Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Schoettli examines three policy choices, the setting up of the Planning Commission in 1950, the signing of the Sino- Indian Panchasheela Agreement in 1954 and the passing of four legislative bills that compiled the Hindu Code in 1955 and 1956.

Recenzje

"This book is a timely volume at a time when founding figures in a space such as India have been deified to the point where even mild criticism leads to extreme governmental backlash; her work also restores to one of these figures his rightful place in history." - Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, University of Oslo; Journal of International and Global Studies Volume 4, Number 1, (November 2012).

Spis treści

1. The art and craft of policy-making  2. The Analytic Framework  3. Nehru, his world view  4. Contextualising Nehru: his contemporaries and ‘the structure of opportunities’  5. The Planning Commission  6. Case Study: The Panchasheela Agreement  7. The Hindu Code Bills  8. The shelf life of Nehru's Institutions: a comparative study of three policies

O autorze

Jivanta Schöttli is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany. Her research interests include Indian politics and foreign policy.