TY - BOOK AU - Chakrabarti,Rajesh AU - Sanyal,Kaushiki TI - Shaping policy in India: alliance, advocacy, activism T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780199090853 (ebook) : AV - JQ229.P64 .C43 2019 U1 - 320.60954 23 PY - 2019/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Policy sciences KW - India KW - Legislation KW - Law reform KW - Political planning N1 - This edition previously issued in print: 2017; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - How effective is the Indian polity in making laws and policies to address changing ground realities? How do its gears work? Which stakeholder groups are more successful in bringing about policy change, through what methods, and in what contexts? Seeking to answer these questions, Shaping Policy in India takes a close look at nine landmark Indian laws and legislative attempts to reveal the socio-political process of policy formulation in the world's largest democracy. Offering in-depth accounts of the evolution of these nine major legislations, this text interrogates the suitability of existing political theories to explain the policy development process in an emerging economy like India UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199475537.001.0001 ER -