THE authors have produced a valuable contribution to the literature on federalism in India. As the title indicates, their focus is on fiscal federalism, the institutions and behaviour that determines how governments at different levels raise, spend and transfer funds. This is narrower than federalism more generally, since that would include political and judicial institutions, which determine...
WHY DEMOCRACY DEEPENS: Political Information and Decentralization in India by Anoop Sadanandan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017.
DEMOCRATIZATION FROM ABOVE: The Logic of Local Democracy in the Developing World by Anjali Thomas Bohlken. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2016. COMPARATIVE political theory of democracy and democratization, which began with a focus on the national and cross-national levels, has now significantly shifted to the local level. In its first phase, this theory almost assumed that...
UNEVEN SOCIAL POLICIES: The Politics of Subnational Variation in Latin America by Sara Niedzwiecki. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2018.
IN January 2019, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee declared that her state would stop implementing the prime minister’s flagship health insurance scheme – PMJAY/Ayushman Bharat – which provides up to Rs 5 lakh health cover per family per year. ‘Today we are withdrawing from the Ayushman Bharat scheme. Now, the Centre will have to bear the entire cost of the scheme as we will no longer...
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