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Politics and the room to manoeuvre: democracy, social opportunity and poverty in India

Mitra, Subrata K., Schottli, Jivanta ORCID: 0000-0002-4658-1483 and Pauli, Markus ORCID: 0000-0003-0799-280X (2013) Politics and the room to manoeuvre: democracy, social opportunity and poverty in India. In: Dulal, Hari, (ed.) Poverty Reduction in a Changing Climate. Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, USA and Plymouth, pp. 21-44. ISBN 978-0-7391-6801-1

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Abstract

Ownership is the essence of economic citizenship. Beyond actual possession, a sense of personal welfare and proprietorship, or at least the hope of achieving them, constitute a necessary and important complement to being stakeholders in a society. Together with efficacy and legitimacy, these are necessary attributes of political agency. In this chapter we examine the interplay between democra- cy, social opportunity and economic security, drawing upon survey data to ex- plore popular perceptions of India’s new economic policy. The article first situ- ates itself within the context of new theoretical literature on the multi- dimensional nature of poverty and how to measure it, then identifies aggregate indicators of the performance of Indian states and the overall achievements and failings of India in terms of poverty alleviation. In the second half, the article identifies what seems to be the lack of a ‘politics of poverty’ in India and the various cultural, historical, political explanations that have been proffered for this apparent anomaly. Finally, the impact of democracy on poverty reduction is examined through the programmes that have been launched and which aim at creating a level-playing field, but which nevertheless have the potential to de- generate into highly populist measures.

Item Type:Book Section
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:democracy; social opportunity; development; India; economic citizenship; welfare; efficacy; legitimacy, economic security; survey, perceptions, multidimensional poverty; poverty alleviation; Indian states; South Asia; BRICS;, growth, redistribution; Post-Colonial States; culture; history;karma; neo-institutional model; liberalization, elites; social intervention; law; order; structural change; deprivation; identity;conflict; values
Subjects:Social Sciences > Political science
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Law and Government
Publisher:Lexington Books
Official URL:https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498510936/Poverty-Reduction-in-a-Changing-Climate
Copyright Information:© 2013 Lexington Books
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:24343
Deposited On:17 Apr 2020 13:37 by Markus Pauli . Last Modified 08 Sep 2020 10:41

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