Economic Liberalisation in India: Regulatory State, Retreating State, or Hybrid Transformation? Introduction India’s 1991 economic liberalisation marks a pivotal inflection in the polity–economy relationship. The orthodox narrative celebrates it as a structural shift from a dirigiste, inward-looking regime to a more open, market-oriented growth strategy. Yet the political-institutional consequences for state autonomy and capacity remain … Continue reading Critically evaluate whether India’s economic liberalisation has enhanced or diminished the autonomous capacity of the state to regulate capital, deliver welfare, and mitigate inequalities. Has liberalisation produced a regulatory state or merely a retreating state?
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Assess the extent to which political corruption, populism, and competitive clientelism have eroded India’s administrative capacity and policy coherence. Comment on the view that India’s problems of governability reflect a mismatch between its democratic aspirations and its political-administrative capacity.
Political Corruption, Populism, and Competitive Clientelism: Erosion of Administrative Capacity and the Crisis of Governability in India The Indian democratic project has often been lauded as one of the most ambitious experiments in postcolonial state-building, combining mass political participation with constitutional guarantees of rights, developmental objectives, and plural representation. Yet, persistent concerns about the quality … Continue reading Assess the extent to which political corruption, populism, and competitive clientelism have eroded India’s administrative capacity and policy coherence. Comment on the view that India’s problems of governability reflect a mismatch between its democratic aspirations and its political-administrative capacity.