Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-Level Democracy - Brossura

Tillin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1009464353 ISBN 13: 9781009464352

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2025

Riassunto

Welfare politics take centre stage in India's electoral landscape today. Direct benefits and employment generation form the mainstays of social provision, while most citizens lack dependable rights to sickness leave, pensions, maternity benefits or unemployment insurance. But how did this system evolve? Louise Tillin traces the origins and development of India's welfare regime, recovering a history previously relegated to the margins of scholarship on the political economy of development. Her deeply researched analysis, spanning from the early twentieth century to the present, captures long-term patterns of continuity and change against a backdrop of nation-building, economic change, and democratisation. Making India Work demonstrates that while patronage and resource constraints have undermined the provision of public goods, Indian workers, employers, politicians and bureaucrats have long debated what an Indian 'welfare state' should look like. The ideas and principles shaping earlier policies remain influential today.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1009464353
• ISBN 13: 9781009464352
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 248
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