Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-m9kch Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-05-17T20:08:50.150Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

3 - Politics of Democratic Deepening

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2017

Anoop Sadanandan
Anoop Sadanandan
Affiliation:
Syracuse University, New York
Get access

Summary

Did democracy deepen in Indian states due the political ideology or the strategies of the political party in power? Or, was it influenced by how disciplined the parties were? Did international factors such as the flow of international aid and capital influence decentralization in Indian states? This chapter examines India's experiences with devolution to show that some of the prominent political explanations for decentralization were not systematically at play in Indian states.
Type
Chapter
Information
Why Democracy Deepens
Political Information and Decentralization in India
 , pp. 36 - 53
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×