The roots of ill-governance and corruption / / V. Santhakumar
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| Autore: |
Santhakumar V.
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| Titolo: |
The roots of ill-governance and corruption / / V. Santhakumar
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| Pubblicazione: | New Delhi ; ; Thousand Oaks : , : Sage Publications, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (193 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 364.1/3230954 |
| Soggetto topico: | Middle class - Political aspects - India |
| Political corruption - India | |
| Elite (Social sciences) - India | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- Elite capture -- Capture of governments by social counter-elites -- Under-class capture of the state -- Competitive populism -- Moving beyond competitive populism -- Epilogue. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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.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 comp |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The roots of ill-governance and corruption |
| ISBN: | 93-5150-475-1 |
| 93-5150-198-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910460290503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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