New Welfare Policy and Democratic Politics in India
New Welfare Policy and Democratic Politics in India

Author: Prakash Sarangi

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-06-11

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1040031765

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New Welfare Policy and Democratic Politics in India offers an analysis of India’s welfare policy during the last couple of decades. It looks at how welfare policy making is viewed as a function of party competition and voter mobilization, showing a gradual transformation of political clients into entitled citizens through which democratic politics in India has redefined its contemporary welfare discourse. The book argues that political parties formulate policies in order to respond to the voices of citizens and shows that a new welfare architecture emerged in India, characterized as responsive welfare. India has witnessed a sharp rise in such voices, which have been disadvantaged by a globalizing market. The size and vulnerability of this group has made them politically significant and electorally salient. These welfare aspirants have found a new political space through political parties to negotiate and assert their claims on the state, creating a milestone in India’s democratic politics trajectory, in the form of entitlement-based welfare policy. The book compares and evaluates the implications of these new welfare policies in the contexts of two governments: the Congress-led government during 2009-2014 and the BJP-led government during 20014-2019. The empirical data reveal remarkable similarities in their electoral pledges, policy outputs, policy outcomes and accountability towards citizens. These findings indicate significant convergence in their welfare policies, sans ideology or ethnic support base. It also reveals that the ideological differences among the two major parties do not prevent remarkable continuities in the formulation and implementation of welfare policies during their incumbencies, thus allowing for a bipartisan acceptance of a citizen-centric welfare policy. Offering a new analysis to understand this citizen-party-policy linkage in the formulation of welfare policy in India, the book presents a macro analysis of India’s interface between democratic politics and welfare policy. It will be of interest to researchers in the fields of the politics of welfare, democratisation in changing societies, comparative politics and Indian and South Asian Studies and Asian Politics.

Social Welfare Policy and Administration
Social Welfare Policy and Administration

Author: Dr. Vidyapati Gautam

Publisher: K.K. Publicaitons

Published: 2022-01-16

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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Social Welfare Policy and Administration In most developed countries, welfare is largely provided by the government, in addition to charities, informal social groups, religious groups, and inter-governmental organizations. Welfare can take a variety of forms, such as monetary payments, subsidies and vouchers, or housing assistance. Welfare systems differ from country to country, but Welfare is commonly provided to individuals who are unemployed, those with illness or disability, the elderly, those with dependent children, and veterans. A person’s eligibility for welfare may also be constrained by means of testing or other conditions. Social policy aims to improve human welfare and to meet human needs for education, health, housing and social security. Important areas of social policy are the welfare state, social security, unemployment insurance, environmental policy, pensions, health care, social housing, social care, child protection, social exclusion, education policy, crime and criminal justice. State social welfare policy is a big and meaty topic for political science research, but it is hardly an extraordinary one. There is no special reason to believe that the behaviour of the various political actors –executives, legislators, judges, bureaucrats, journalists, activists, citizens involved in the states’ social welfare policies will differ in any substantial way from the behaviour of those involved in policy at the national level, or within different policy domains at the state level. Political actors, acting upon incentives and goals within institutional frameworks, determine state social welfare policy. The present book has been planned in such a way to give an overall view of this subject. Contents: • Leadership in Organizations • Dynamic Leadership, Discipline and Policy-formation • The Problems of Organization • Public Policy and Administration • Gender Responsive Governance • Leadership and Change Management • Administrative System for National Integration and Development • Citizen Participation in Local Governance • New Dimension in Civil Services

Development and Welfare Policy in South Asia
Development and Welfare Policy in South Asia

Author: Gabriele Koehler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-05

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1136730982

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This book sheds light on social policies in six South Asian countries introduced between 2003 and 2013, examining the ways in which these policies have come about, and what this reflects about the nature of the state in each of these countries. It offers a detailed analysis of the nature of these policies introduced in recent years in Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and illustrates the similarities and differences in policy approaches amongst the six countries. Through this analysis, the book explores the thesis of whether there is a particular type of ‘developmental welfare state’ that can be observed across South Asia. The focus is on social policies or policies designed to address poverty and deliver welfare at the level of programming and design, i.e. the stated intent of these policies. The book also presents an analysis of the fiscal space available in each of the six countries, thereby drawing conclusions about the financial feasibility of a ‘developmental welfare state’ model in the region. This comprehensive book uniquely explores critical aspects of policy debates on a possible move from welfare to ‘rights’. It introduces students and researchers in development studies, social policy and South Asian studies to innovative welfare programmes in South Asia and gives a new perspective on the nature and patterns of welfare in South Asia with the view of tackling inequality and promoting well-being.