Public Policy and Citizenship: Battling Managerialism in India - Hardcover

Sivaramakrishnan, Arvind

9788132106333: Public Policy and Citizenship: Battling Managerialism in India

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8132106334 ISBN 13: 9788132106333

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2012

Public Policy and Citizenship analyzes 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 strength of the book is that it demonstrates links between public policy, the philosophy of the social sciences, and political philosophy, all in the light of everyday issues and concerns.

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About the Author:

Arvind Sivaramakrishnan is an Adjunct Professor and former Visiting Professor in the Department of Humanities at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. From 2008 to 2014 he was he was Senior Deputy Editor on the Hindu, writing editorials, specialist articles, and book reviews on international politics, public policy, and political theory; he combined his duties with teaching and research as an Associate Professor at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. He took his degree and doctorate as well as a professional teaching qualification at the University of Southampton, where he also taught politics. Since then he has taught at Suffolk College, Ipswich, the Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad, Southampton Institute of Higher Education (now Southampton Solent University), and Tauntons College, (now Richard Taunton College), Southampton. He has published a range of academic papers in politics, political philosophy, public policy, and related fields, and has conducted research seminars and research training sessions at universities in the European Union and India. His books include Public Interest Journalism (2014), Public Policy and Citizenship (2012), Short on Democracy (2007), and Through a Glass Wall (2007). He is currently coediting, with Dr Sudarsan Padmanabhan, a book on elections and electoral processes.

Review:

This book restores the idea of citizenship to the heart of public policy debates and shows very clearly the issues of informed judgment and political morality which lie at its heart. Author: Raymond Plant

In this insightful and carefully documented assessment of neoliberal thought and practice, Sivaramakrishnan points out how the emergence of an elite social network of managers from within and outside of government has insidiously helped to dismantle democratic Institutions, under the stated goal of improving efficiency and reducing disruptions to the continued functioning of the state. Author: Sudhir Chella Rajan

There is nothing better available on the links in India between managerialism, neo-liberalism and the crisis of Indian democracy. Author: Rajeev Bhargava

[The book] offers very interesting insights to understand the deep inequalities rooted in the development agenda which Indian government adopted from early 1990s onwards.... Sivaramakrishnan draws interesting comparisons with examples from other countries, in particular the UK and USA.... contributes to our understanding of the transformation of the Indian state in the wake of the 1991 economic reforms and its implications for the massive army of destitute people who are struggling to find access to basic rights. Author: Asian Affairs, November 2013

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