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    Explaining India’s deviant democracy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    Since independence, India has been home to widespread poverty and illiteracy, low levels of economic development and vast ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity. Scholars refer to it as the most surprising case of democratic endurance in the world. They also describe it as a ‘deviant’ case of democratic transition and consolidation.
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    The governance of nature and the nature of governance: policy that works for biodiversity and livelihoods

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
    This report is an output of IIED’s collaborative research project “Policy that works for biodiversity and poverty reduction” and is based on a literature review and three country case studies (India, Peru and Tanzania).
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    New mechanisms for public accountability: the Indian experience

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2009
    This paper summarises some of the initiatives to enhance public accountability in India. These are divided into two categories: initiatives from the government and those that emanated primarily from civil society. India’s economic and institutional reforms provided the setting in which these initiatives were launched.
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    Taking the State to court

    Asia House, 2001
    This book deals with the concepts of good governance and related issues concerning the relationship between state and society, and specifically the viability of representative democracy.
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    Speaking out: how the voices of poor people are shaping the future

    Oxfam, 2009
    This paper from Oxfam focuses on how the "right to be heard" concept can strengthen public participation  in policy making and accountability. Recommendations for those upporting poor and marginalised people to lobby for changes in their situation include:
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    Civil society and right to information: a perspective on India’s experience

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2004
    This paper provides an account of the right to information movement spearheaded by civil society in India. In particular, the paper examines how civil society has:
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    Face-to-face interactions enhance effectiveness of NGOs

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    There should be more face to face visits between Northern and Southern non-governmental organisations (NGOs). And less reliance on indicators, reports and other documentation, according to an article in Development in Practice.
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    Do voters appreciate responsive governments? evidence from Indian disaster relief

    Harvard Business School, 2008
    Models of political accountability suggest that the governments which perform poorly fail to get re-elected. Recent evidence suggests, however, that voters may punish politicians even for events outside their control. This behaviour may violate standard models of democratic accountability, and has been advanced as evidence of voter irrationality.
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    Politics, state governance and manufacturing in West Bengal

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    West Bengal, historically India’s most industrialised state, has been ruled by a leftist government since 1977. Once hostile to Indian capitalists and foreign investors, it now pursues pro-business policies which seem to have helped revive manufacturing industry.
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    Traveling agents: political change and bureaucratic turnover in India

    Harvard Business School, 2008
    Politicians and bureaucrats are two important pillars of governance, but while politicians are motivated by short-term electoral pressures, bureaucrats are driven by long-term career concerns. This difference in the nature of their incentives is, in most cases, deliberate and constitutionally provided for.

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