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Author Sivaramakrishnan, Arvind

Title Public policy and citizenship : battling managerialism in India / Arvind Sivaramakrishnan
Published New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages)
Contents Managerialism: empirical failure and conceptual catastrophe -- The free market as an instrument of public policy -- Health policy -- Agriculture -- Education -- Towards citizenship
Summary Public Policy and Citizenship analyses the two dominant public-policy approaches in India-managerialism and neoliberalism-and argues that they have had a profoundly damaging impact. Drawing upon a substantial body of published work, the book shows how managerialist and free-market systems are fundamentally incoherent and destructive. The discussion in this volume revolves primarily around Indian public policy on health, agriculture, and education. The author argues that the condition of these areas, and therefore the condition of hundreds of millions of people, is worse than many analysts clai
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Public welfare -- India -- Management
Human services -- India -- Management
Public administration -- India
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General.
Human services -- Management
Public administration
Public welfare -- Management
India
Form Electronic book
ISBN 8132109406
9788132109402
9781283422215
1283422212