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From Quiescent Bureaucracy to 'Undocumented Wonder' : Explaining the Indian Election Commission's Expanding Mandate

Ahuja, Amit - 2018

Public institutions in the developing world are often characterized by institutional capture or decay. Yet, India … institutions in India, enjoys substantial powers, and conducts some of the longest elections in the world. We use a process … bureaucratic actors take advantage of moments of political opportunity, those aspects of the bureaucracy that can credibly meet …

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Representative bureaucracy in challenging environments : gender representation, education, and India

Dhillon, Anita; Meier, Kenneth J. - In: International public management journal 25 (2022) 1, pp. 43-64

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Corruption, Distortions, and development

Jävervall, Sebastian - 2021

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Policy bureaucracy : government with a cast of thousands

Page, Edward - 2005

Policy making is not only about the cut and thrust of politics. It is also a bureaucratic activity. In this ground-breaking work, two leading authorities come together to examine the world of the policy bureaucrat for the first time. The volume draws in crucial debates over accountability and...

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Resisting Bureaucratic Corruption : Alacrity Housing Chennai (A) (Teaching Case Study)

Velamuri, S. Ramakrishna - 2008

operating a construction business in Chennai, Southern India. Part A of the case traces his first business ventures from 1978 to …

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The Political Economy of Bureaucratic Overload : Evidence from Rural Development Officials in India

Dasgupta, Aditya - 2019

local rural development officials across India, including time-usage diaries which measure their daily behavior, we provide …

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Bureaucratic and societal determinants of female-led microenterprises in India

Devlina; Sahu, Santosh Kumar - In: Administrative Sciences : open access journal 13 (2023) 3, pp. 1-15

This study examines the barriers to female entrepreneurship in India's microenterprise sector through society and … bureaucracy. The study uses grammatical genders in languages to capture the societal attitudes towards female entrepreneurship …

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Lines of the Nation : Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self

Bear, Laura - 2007

Lines of the Nation radically recasts the history of the Indian railways, which have long been regarded as vectors of modernity and economic prosperity. From the design of carriages to the architecture of stations, employment hierarchies,.

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Making the Politician and the Bureaucrat Deliver : Employment Guarantee in India

Goyal, Ashima - 2005

employment guarantee scheme (EGS) in India, in the context of Indian history and habits. There are still weaknesses in the … examination of the interactions between politicians and bureaucrats, village self-government, and the water economy in India …

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Resisting Bureaucratic Corruption : Alacrity Housing Chennai (Research Case Study)

Velamuri, S. Ramakrishna - 2007

This case study examines corruption from the perspective of a firm. It documents the history of Alacrity Housing Chennai from the time it was set up in 1981 to 2002. During this period the company, under the leadership of Amol Karnad, became very well known for its ethical practices (for...

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