• ISBN13: 9789351500599
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Publisher Imprint: SAGE India
• Publication Date: May 16, 2014
• Pages: 192
• Original Price: INR 795.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 340 grams

<p style="text-align: justify;">This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the motivation behind corruption and ill-governance in countries, such as India. It presents a sound theoretical structure outlining the journey through various phases of elitism, counter-elitism, competitive populism, and, finally, good governance.<br /> <br /> The political willingness to bring in good governance, the book argues, depends on the electoral importance of the middle classes. Ironically, however, such a middle class emerges out of the policies of distributing private goods, including education, facilitated through counter-elite capture and competitive populism.<br /> <br /> This book emphasises that despite the emergence of the middle class in India as a whole, during the last two decades, their percentage and role in many states are currently limited. The continuation of high levels of ill-governance and corruption is explained here in terms of the role they play in shaping the central government, and also many state governments in India. <div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div>