Public Policy in IndiaWydanie 1

This textbook is a comprehensive, student-friendly guide to public policy in India. It highlights the critical aspects of public policy-making and its implementation by contextualizing it in the Indian historical and modern-day perspective.

Public Policy in India:

• Provides lucid explanations of theoretical aspects of public policy and its practice in the Indian context;

• Captures the complexities in making, implementing and evaluating public policy;

• Studies the dialectical interconnection that public policy has with the socio-economic and political environment;

• Highlights the influence of culture on public policy; and

• Analyses public policy as an outcome of a very complex contextual dialogue involving various kinds of actors.

Accessibly written, this book covers a range of university syllabi and will be essential reading for students and researchers of political science and public administration. It will also be indispensable for civil service examinations, including the UPSC.