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Higher education and democratic politics in post-reform India
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Higher education and democratic politics in post-reform India
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Mukherjee
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Simantini
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1980-
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Robert
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Roy Chowdhury
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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A puzzle of economic liberalization in democratic and democratizing countries is how reforms were implemented in rent-seeking economies where diverse interests competed with one another for monopoly over state-owned resources. In answering this question, scholars of comparative politics have drawn attention to how policymakers have tried to manage the costs for social groups that stand to lose from reform. For instance, the persistence of rent-seeking in liberalizing states has resulted from the state’s attempts to placate powerful constituencies faced with adequate incentives to organize against reform. In this dissertation I use the case of post-liberalization India to contribute to this scholarship. I argue that the Indian state has sought to manage the costs of reform by using the policy arena of education reform as a site of patronage and social management. However, such policies have had unintended consequences, as reforms have produced new elite groups that have influenced policy outcome via mobilization in non-electoral spaces such as the judiciary. In investigating the politics of opposition by such elite groups, my dissertation shows how the Supreme Court became the site for consolidation of a post-reform entrepreneurial identity that arose at the intersection of discourses on caste, community and religion. Thereby, it also looks at the ways in which the judicial institution has traditionally served as the institutional counter-mechanism to policy-making by legislatures in democracies.
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Political Science
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viii, 247 p. : ill.
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by Simantini Mukherjee
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Educational change--India
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India--Politics and government--1977-
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India. Supreme Court
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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