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Two steps forward one step back: decentralisation as a policy process in India

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This article argues that decentralisation in India should be seen as a policy process. It is a policy process in the sense that multiple actors and agencies influence the decentralisation process at all levels of the polity. While this may appear as obvious, decentralisation as a policy process requires: (a) analysis of this process not at one level nor as one event but (b) as a series of public policy processes that eventually result in successful or not so successful realisation of decentralisation on the ground. Copyright Institute for Social and Economic Change 2015

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  • Anil Vaddiraju, 2015. "Two steps forward one step back: decentralisation as a policy process in India," Journal of Social and Economic Development, Springer;Institute for Social and Economic Change, vol. 17(2), pages 312-319, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jsecdv:v:17:y:2015:i:2:p:312-319
    DOI: 10.1007/s40847-015-0010-7
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