Theories of Governance and Development: How Does India’s Experience Fit?

Nirvikar Singh

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Abstract: This paper takes on the apparent paradox of India’s combination of durable democracy, capable bureaucracy, but a deficient development trajectory. It begins by outlining the nature of the problem. Then it summarizes and compares some significant approaches to drawing connections from governance institutions to development outcomes. Next, it reviews some of the contributions to understanding India’s political economy in the last few decades. Finally, it attempts to draw some lessons from India’s experience for the application of different theories of governance and development. The central lesson is that the paradox recedes when attention is paid to the subnational level, where India’s states encompass considerable variation in initial societal and economic conditions and in development outcomes.

Keywords: democracy; embedded autonomy; governance; limited access orders; India; inclusive institutions; political economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H1 O10 O43 O57 P26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-01-01
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