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What drives policy choices in the world’s largest democracy, and how do analysts shape decisions that affect more than a billion people?
Bringing together leading scholars and seasoned practitioners, Policy Analysis in India maps the evolution of policy analysis since the country became independent and reveals how analysis is conducted across ministries, sectors and levels of government. Through rich empirical cases – from education, policing and international organisations to fiscal federalism, the judiciary and the use of open data – the book uncovers the actors, methods and institutions that underpin analysis for policy in India. In doing so, it highlights both the progress made and the gaps that shape the quality of public decision-making.
This book will benefit graduate students, early-career analysts, researchers and professionals across government and civil society who want to engage more effectively with India’s policy processes and contribute to more informed, accountable governance.
Azad Singh Bali is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University.
Satyajit Singh is Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Department of Global Studies at UC Santa Barbara.
1. Policy Analysis in India: An Introductory Overview - Azad Singh Bali and Satyajit Singh
2. Policy Commitments and Different Epistemes of Policy Analysis in India - Satyajit Singh
3. Making India’s Statistical System Statistically Significant - Bibek Debroy & Aditya Sinha
4. Open Government Data in India: Progress, Gaps, and Prospects for Policy Analysis - Namrata Chindarkar
5. The Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC -2011) and its role in Policy Analysis in India - Amarjeet Sinha
6. Policy Analysis and Fiscal Federalism in India - Deepak Sanan
7. Policy Analysis at the Sub-national Governments - Localising Sustainability in Chhattisgarh: Nitya Khemka and Suraj Kumar
8. The Judiciary and Policy Analysis in India - Manish
9. The Role of Policy Analysis in Shaping and Managing PPPs in India: Ethics as a Core Competence for Business Sustainability - Kumar V Pratap
10. Policy Analysis within the Indian Parliament - Ajay K. Mehra
11. Economic Policy Analysis by the Indian Government - A Study of the Economic Survey - Stuti Rawat
12. Supporting teachers to work better: Policy analysis and New Delhi’s Education Reforms in Delhi - Yan Yi Fei
13. International Organisations and the Making of Public Policy - Shailaja Fennell
14. The Imperative of Stronger Stakeholders for Accountability in India - T.R Raghunandan and Sidharth Santhosh
15. The Status of Policing in India and the India Justice Reports as Instruments of Policy Analysis in the Indian Police Service - Radhika Jha and Vipul Mudgal
16. Policy Analysis in Political Parties in India - Saumya Varma, Sneha Koshy, Asmi Sharma, M. Amaan Asim, and M. V. Rajeev Gowda
17. Building Policy Analysis Capacity in India: The Role of Public Policy Schools - Dayashankar Maurya and Ishani Mukherjee
18. Conclusion: A Postscript