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Corruption and Reform in India: Public Services in the Digital Age

by Jennifer Bussell
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781107627864
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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  • Pages: 322
  • Original Price: GBP 34.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 472 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Public Affairs & Administration

This book asks why some governments improve public services more effectively than others. Through the investigation of a new era of administrative reform, in which digital technologies may be used to facilitate citizens' access to the state, Jennifer Bussell's analysis provides unanticipated insights into this fundamental question. In contrast to factors such as economic development or electoral competition, this study highlights the importance of access to rents, which can dramatically shape the opportunities and threats of reform to political elites. Drawing on a sub-national analysis of twenty Indian states, a field experiment, statistical modeling, case studies, interviews of citizens, bureaucrats, and politicians, and comparative data from South Africa and Brazil, Bussell shows that the extent to which politicians rely on income from petty and grand corruption is closely linked to variation in the timing, management, and comprehensiveness of reforms. The book also illuminates the importance of electoral constituencies and coalition politics in shaping policy outcomes.

Bussell, Jennifer: - Jennifer Bussell is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. Her research focuses on comparative politics, the political economy of development, and technology policy and has appeared in journals including Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly and Studies in Comparative International Development. She received a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2009.

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