Public Policy

Concept, Theory and Practice
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-93-5150-925-7
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 391 g

The book offers a balanced mix of practical and theoretical aspects of public policy by tracing its evolution in the Indian context and helping to strengthen conceptual articulation.

Development of public policy as a subject of academic study and as a field of practice depends a lot on the prevalent socio-economic and political milieu. Public Policy: Concept, Theory and Practice highlights the critical aspects of public policy making and its implementation by contextualizing it in the Indian historical and modern-day perspective.

Filling the existing content gap due to non-availability of comprehensive textbooks on the subject, this book makes the ideas and concepts easily intelligible for everybody. Students pursuing graduate and postgraduate courses in Political Science, Public Administration and civil services and UGC NET aspirants will find this book immensely useful.

Key Features

• Draws largely on instances from Indian experiences

• Relates to and takes cue from contributions of well-established authors in the field

• Raises questions to aid and inspire further research in this area

• Dedicated sections on environmental policies and education and health policies discussed, devised and implemented in India.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chakrabarty, Bidyut

Kandpal, Prakash Chand

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
Public Policy: Articulation, Significance and Approaches
Public Policy Processes
Public Policy and Globalization
CONCEPTUALIZING INDIAN RESPONSES
Public Policy Processes in India
Models and Trends of Public Policy in India
Designing Public Policy at the Grassroots: Panchayati Raj in West Bengal and Bhagidari in Delhi
SECTORAL POLICY DESIGNS IN INDIA
Environmental Policy in India
Education Policy in India
Public Health Policy in India: A Critical Note
Rights-based Social Policy: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), 2005
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kandpal, Prakash Chand
Prakash Chand Kandpal is currently a faculty at the Department of Political Science, Dyal Singh Evening College, University of Delhi. He holds a PhD from the University of Delhi. He has been awarded a doctoral fellowship by ICSSR and a postdoctoral research award by UGC. He has coauthored four books with Professor Bidyut Chakrabarty: Public Administration in a Globalizing World (SAGE, 2012), Indian Administration: Evolution and Practice (SAGE, 2016), Public Policy: Concept, Theory and Practice (SAGE, 2016) and Public Administration: From Government to Governance (2017). His research papers have appeared in various national and international journals including Indian Social Science Review, Social Change, Social Action, Urban India, Indian Journal of Public Administration, Administrative Development, Research Journal Social Sciences, Gandhi Marg and so on. He was shortlisted for Dr V. K. R. V. Rao Awards in Social Science Research for the year 2015 for his contribution in the field of Public Administration.

His areas of interests are public administration, and environmental policy and politics in India. Currently he is pursuing a major research project (sponsored by ICSSR) on policy and politics of air pollution in Delhi. His research primarily focuses on the politics of urban environment in contemporary India.

Chakrabarty, Bidyut
Bidyut Chakrabarty is Vice-Chancellor, Visva Bharati, West Bengal. He was Professor in the Department of Political Science in University of Delhi till November 2018. He completed his PhD from London School of Economics and has been associated with teaching and research for more than three decades. He has taught in several prestigious educational institutions, such as the London School of Economics; Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta; Monash University, Australia; National University of Singapore; Hamburg University, Germany. Professor Chakrabarty has authored several textbooks and academic books. Among his publications are Public Administration: From Government to Governance (2017), Winning the Mandate: The Indian Experience (2016), Communism in India: Events, Processes and Ideologies (2014), Indian Politics and Society since Independence: Events, Processes and Ideology (2008) and The Governance Discourse: A Reader (2008).