This textbook is a comprehensive student-friendly guide to public policy in India. It highlights the critical aspects of public policy-making and its implementation by contextualizing it in the Indian historical and modern-day perspective.
Public Policy in India:
- Provides lucid explanations of theoretical aspects of public policy and its practice in the Indian context;
- Captures the complexities in the making, implementing, and evaluating public policy;
- Studies the dialectical interconnection that public policy has with the socio-economic and political environment;
- Highlights the influence of culture on public policy; and
- Analyses public policy as an outcome of a very complex contextual dialogue involving various kinds of actors.
Accessibly written, this book covers a range of university syllabi and will be essential reading for students and researchers of political science and public administration. It will also be indispe