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Internal Security In India - Violence, Order, And The State

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 <strong>An overarching exploration of the Indian state''s approaches, laws, and organizations that maintain order and contain violence. </strong>Maintaining order and containing violence-the core constituents of internal security-are fundamental responsibilities of any government. Yet, developing countries find this task especially challenging. In <em>Internal Security in India</em>, Amit Ahuja, Devesh Kapur, and a cast of leading scholars on the subject focus on India''s security and the threats it faces. Since Independence, the Indian state has grappled with a variety of internal security challenges, including insurgencies, terrorist attacks, caste and communal violence, riots, and electoral violence. Their toll has claimed more lives than all of India''s five external wars put together. As the contributors in this volume analyze how the Indian State has managed the core concern of internal security over time, they address three broad questions: How well has India contained violence and preserved order? How have the approaches and capacity of the State evolved to attain these twin objectives? And what implications do the State''s approach towards internal security have for civil liberties and the quality of democracy? A major reinterpretation of order and internal security in India, this book sheds light on an underanalyzed issue of global import given the changing nature of threats that states face.
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Internal Security In India - Violence, Order, And The State

23,84€ + 10% CARD

 <strong>An overarching exploration of the Indian state''s approaches, laws, and organizations that maintain order and contain violence. </strong>Maintaining order and containing violence-the core constituents of internal security-are fundamental responsibilities of any government. Yet, developing countries find this task especially challenging. In <em>Internal Security in India</em>, Amit Ahuja, Devesh Kapur, and a cast of leading scholars on the subject focus on India''s security and the threats it faces. Since Independence, the Indian state has grappled with a variety of internal security challenges, including insurgencies, terrorist attacks, caste and communal violence, riots, and electoral violence. Their toll has claimed more lives than all of India''s five external wars put together. As the contributors in this volume analyze how the Indian State has managed the core concern of internal security over time, they address three broad questions: How well has India contained violence and preserved order? How have the approaches and capacity of the State evolved to attain these twin objectives? And what implications do the State''s approach towards internal security have for civil liberties and the quality of democracy? A major reinterpretation of order and internal security in India, this book sheds light on an underanalyzed issue of global import given the changing nature of threats that states face.
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Capacity Beyond Coercion - Regulatory Pragmatism And Compliance Along The India-Nepal Border

by Susan L. Ostermann

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 State capacity is often equated with coercion. However, history has shown that it is extremely difficult for states with weak capacity to ensure compliance with their laws.In <em>Capacity beyond Coercion</em>, Susan L. Ostermann examines the largely unexplored capacities that allow coercively weak states to promote law-following behavior. Utilizing extensive data collected in adjacent districts in India and Nepal, she demonstrates how coercively weak states can significantly increase compliance by behaving pragmatically and designing implementation strategies around known barriers to compliance. In particular, she examines variation in compliance with conservation, education, and child labor regulations, investigating the mechanisms by which the Indian and Nepali states have, despite limited enforcement capacity, secured compliance with regulations that run counter to customary norms and to the self-interest of target populations. She argues that one such barrier is imperfect legal knowledge and shows how states that have engaged in what she terms "regulatory pragmatism" may circumvent this compliance barrier. They do so by designing implementation strategies for on-the-ground realities. Exploring two such efforts--delegated enforcement and information dissemination through local leaders, Ostermann demonstrates that states that suffer from limited coercive capacity but behave pragmatically can still bring about large-scale compliance. Given that many states have weak enforcement capacity, the findings in <em>Capacity beyond Coercion</em> point a way forward for more effective and responsive governance throughout the developing world.
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Capacity Beyond Coercion - Regulatory Pragmatism And Compliance Along The India-Nepal Border

by Susan L. Ostermann

63,59€ + 10% CARD

 State capacity is often equated with coercion. However, history has shown that it is extremely difficult for states with weak capacity to ensure compliance with their laws.In <em>Capacity beyond Coercion</em>, Susan L. Ostermann examines the largely unexplored capacities that allow coercively weak states to promote law-following behavior. Utilizing extensive data collected in adjacent districts in India and Nepal, she demonstrates how coercively weak states can significantly increase compliance by behaving pragmatically and designing implementation strategies around known barriers to compliance. In particular, she examines variation in compliance with conservation, education, and child labor regulations, investigating the mechanisms by which the Indian and Nepali states have, despite limited enforcement capacity, secured compliance with regulations that run counter to customary norms and to the self-interest of target populations. She argues that one such barrier is imperfect legal knowledge and shows how states that have engaged in what she terms "regulatory pragmatism" may circumvent this compliance barrier. They do so by designing implementation strategies for on-the-ground realities. Exploring two such efforts--delegated enforcement and information dissemination through local leaders, Ostermann demonstrates that states that suffer from limited coercive capacity but behave pragmatically can still bring about large-scale compliance. Given that many states have weak enforcement capacity, the findings in <em>Capacity beyond Coercion</em> point a way forward for more effective and responsive governance throughout the developing world.
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An Age To Work - Working-Class Childhood In Third Republic Paris

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 An Age to Work reveals how the French welfare state produced class and gender-based hierarchies within childhood. It weaves together the histories of child labor and juvenile delinquency to trace how the state used age-based regulations to ensure the productivity of working-class youths.
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Migration-Development Regime - How Class Shapes Indian Emigration

by Rina Agarwala

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 <strong>A sweeping history of how India has used its poor and elite emigrants to further Indian development and how Indian emigrants have reacted, resisted, and re-shaped India''s development in response. </strong>How can states and migrants themselves explain the causes and effects of global migration? <em>The Migration-Development Regime</em> introduces a novel analytical framework to help answer this question in India, the world''s largest emigrant exporter and the world''s largest remittance-receiving country. Drawing on an archival analysis of Indian government documents, an original data base of Indian migrants'' transnational organizations, and over 200 interviews with poor and elite Indian emigrants, recruiters, and government officials, this book exposes the vital role the Indian state (from the colonial era to the present day) has long played in forging and legitimizing class inequalities within India through the management of international emigration. It also exposes how poor and elite emigrants have differentially resisted and re-shaped state emigration practices over time. By taking a long and class-based view, this book recasts contemporary migration not simply as a problematic function of neoliberalism or as a development panacea for sending countries, but as a dynamic historical process that sending states and migrants have long used to shape local development. In doing so, it re-defines the primary problems of global migration, exposes the material and ideological impact that migration has on sending state development, and isolates what is truly novel about contemporary migration.
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Migration-Development Regime - How Class Shapes Indian Emigration

by Rina Agarwala

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 <strong>A sweeping history of how India has used its poor and elite emigrants to further Indian development and how Indian emigrants have reacted, resisted, and re-shaped India''s development in response. </strong>How can states and migrants themselves explain the causes and effects of global migration? <em>The Migration-Development Regime</em> introduces a novel analytical framework to help answer this question in India, the world''s largest emigrant exporter and the world''s largest remittance-receiving country. Drawing on an archival analysis of Indian government documents, an original data base of Indian migrants'' transnational organizations, and over 200 interviews with poor and elite Indian emigrants, recruiters, and government officials, this book exposes the vital role the Indian state (from the colonial era to the present day) has long played in forging and legitimizing class inequalities within India through the management of international emigration. It also exposes how poor and elite emigrants have differentially resisted and re-shaped state emigration practices over time. By taking a long and class-based view, this book recasts contemporary migration not simply as a problematic function of neoliberalism or as a development panacea for sending countries, but as a dynamic historical process that sending states and migrants have long used to shape local development. In doing so, it re-defines the primary problems of global migration, exposes the material and ideological impact that migration has on sending state development, and isolates what is truly novel about contemporary migration.
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Access To Power - Electricity And The Infrastructural State In Pakistan

by Ijlal Naqvi

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 This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Pakistan would desperately like to produce enough electricity, but it usually doesn''t. Despite prioritization by successive governments, targeted reforms shaped by international development actors, and featuring prominently in Chinese Belt and Road investments, the Pakistani power sector continues to stifle economic and social life across the country. Why? In <em>Access to Power</em>, Ijlal Naqvi explores state capacity in Pakistan by following the material infrastructure of electricity across the provinces and down into cities and homes. Naqvi argues that the national-level challenges of crippling budgetary constraints and power shortages directly result from conscious strategic decisions that are integral to Pakistan''s infrastructural state. As he shows, electricity governance in Pakistan reinforces unequal relations of power between provinces and the federal center, contributes to the marginalization of subordinate groups in the city, and cements the patronage-based relationships between Pakistani citizens and the state that have been so detrimental to development progress. Looking through the lens of the electrical power sector, <em>Access to Power</em> reveals how Pakistan actually works, and to whose benefit.
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Access To Power - Electricity And The Infrastructural State In Pakistan

by Ijlal Naqvi

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 This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Pakistan would desperately like to produce enough electricity, but it usually doesn''t. Despite prioritization by successive governments, targeted reforms shaped by international development actors, and featuring prominently in Chinese Belt and Road investments, the Pakistani power sector continues to stifle economic and social life across the country. Why? In <em>Access to Power</em>, Ijlal Naqvi explores state capacity in Pakistan by following the material infrastructure of electricity across the provinces and down into cities and homes. Naqvi argues that the national-level challenges of crippling budgetary constraints and power shortages directly result from conscious strategic decisions that are integral to Pakistan''s infrastructural state. As he shows, electricity governance in Pakistan reinforces unequal relations of power between provinces and the federal center, contributes to the marginalization of subordinate groups in the city, and cements the patronage-based relationships between Pakistani citizens and the state that have been so detrimental to development progress. Looking through the lens of the electrical power sector, <em>Access to Power</em> reveals how Pakistan actually works, and to whose benefit.
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Patching Development - Information Politics And Social Change In India

by Rajesh Veeraraghavan

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 Diving into an original and unusually positive case study from India, <em>Patching Development </em>shows how development programs can be designed to work.How can development programs deliver benefits to marginalized citizens in ways that expand their rights and freedoms? Political will and good policy design are critical but often insufficient due to resistance from entrenched local power systems. In<em> Patching Development</em>, Rajesh Veeraraghavan presents an ethnography of one of the largest development programs in the world, the Indian National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), and examines NREGA''s implementation in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. He finds that the local system of power is extremely difficult to transform, not because of inertia, but because of coercive counter strategy from actors at the last mile and their ability to exploit information asymmetries. Upper-level NREGA bureaucrats in Andhra Pradesh do not possess the capacity to change the power axis through direct confrontation with local elites, but instead have relied on a continuous series of responses that react to local implementation and information, a process of patching development. "Patching development" is a top-down, fine-grained, iterative socio-technical process that makes local information about implementation visible through technology and enlists participation from marginalized citizens through social audits. These processes are neither neat nor orderly and have led to a contentious sphere where the exercise of power over documents, institutions and technology is intricate, fluid and highly situated. A highly original account with global significance, this book casts new light on the challenges and benefits of using information and technology in novel ways to implement development programs.
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Cultivating Democracy - Politics And Citizenship In Agrarian India

by Mukulika Banerjee

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 <strong>An ethnographic study of Indian democracy that shows how agrarian life creates values of citizenship and active engagement that are essential for the cultivation of democracy.</strong><em>Cultivating Democracy</em> provides a compelling ethnographic analysis of the relationship between formal political institutions and everyday citizenship in rural India. Banerjee draws on deep engagement with the people and social life in two West Bengal villages from 1998-2013, during election campaigns and in the times between, to show how the micro-politics of their day-to-day life builds active engagement with the macro-politics of state and nation. Her sensitive analysis focuses on several "events" in the life of the villages shows how India''s agrarian rural society helps create practices and conceptual space for these citizens to be effective participants in India''s great democratic exercises. Specifically, she shows how the villagers'' creative practices around their kinship, farming and religion, while navigating encounters with local communist cadres, constitute a vital and continuing cultivation of those republican virtues of cooperation, civility, solidarity and vigilance which the visionary Ambedkar considered essential for the success of Indian democracy. At a time when so much of that constitutional vision is under threat, this book provides a crucial scholarly rebuttal to all, on Right or Left, who dismiss rural citizens'' political capacities and democratic values. This book will appeal to anyone interested in India''s political culture and future, its rural society, or the continuing relevance of political anthropology.
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Farewell To Arms - How Rebels Retire Without Getting Killed

by Rumela Sen

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 How do armed revolts against existing governments end? What compels rebels to lay down their arms and put revolution aside? And what happens then? Drawing on her years-long research amidst Maoist rebels in India, Rumela Sen outlines the successful methods that persuade rebels to move past revolutionary goals and integrate back into society.
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Capable Women, Incapable States - Negotiating Violence And Rights In India

by Poulami Roychowdhury

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 A unique theory of gender inequality and governance, Capable Women, Incapable States forces us to rethink the effects of rights activism across large parts of the world where political mobilization for rights confront negligent criminal justice systems.
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Internal Security In India - Violence, Order, And The State

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Internal Security In India - Violence, Order, And The State

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Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated - Women And Religious Nationalism In Indian Democracy

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Capacity Beyond Coercion - Regulatory Pragmatism And Compliance Along The India-Nepal Border

by Susan L. (Assistant Professor Of Global Affairs & Political Science, Assistant Professor Of Global Affairs & Political Science, University Of Notre Dame) Ostermann

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Access To Power - Electricity And The Infrastructural State In Pakistan

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The Migration-Development Regime - How Class Shapes Indian Emigration

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The Migration-Development Regime - How Class Shapes Indian Emigration

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The Difficult Politics Of Peace - Rivalry In Modern South Asia

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The Difficult Politics Of Peace - Rivalry In Modern South Asia

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The Power Of Narrative - Climate Skepticism And The Deconstruction Of Science

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 The Power of Narrative provides fresh insight into the rhetorical and semantic properties on both sides of the climate change debate that preclude dialogue around climate science, and proposes a means for moving beyond ideological entrenchment through language mediation, further ethnographic study, and research-informed teaching.
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Against Capital Punishment

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 Against Capital Punishment develops an innovative argument against the death penalty that sidesteps questions about the morality of execution itself. Yost argues that the irrevocability of the death penalty calls for its abolition. In so doing, he explores the extent of legal institutions' responsibility to remedy their mistakes and solves the problems that sabotage other versions of procedural abolitionism.

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