Lessons in State Capacity from Delhi's Schools
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-892263-6 (ISBN)
What will it take to build high-performing, purpose-oriented public sector organizations in India? In answering this question, the voices of India's frontline officers--charged with delivering a vast array of public services to citizens--are dismissed all too quickly. Public debates on the Indian state generally view them as corrupt, apathetic, incompetent, and in urgent need of disciplining. By training her focus on these voices, Aiyar reveals the complex ways in which bureaucratic hierarchies, processes, and belief systems shape state capacity. This book examines an ambitious effort to improve the quality of government schools, particularly their ability to equip students with foundational literacy and numeracy, in the city-state of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. Through the trials and tribulations of educational personnel, bureaucrats, and reform champions, Aiyar captures the sites of resistance, distortion, and adoption of reform ideas. Understanding these dynamics lies at the heart of the challenge of building high-performing public sector organizations and improving state capacity.
Yamini Aiyar is a public policy scholar and is currently Visiting Senior Fellow, Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia and Watson Institute, Brown University, USA. Previously, she was President, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi (2017-2024). Her research interests span the fields of public finance, social policy, state capacity, federalism, governance, and the study of contemporary politics in India. Throughout her career, Aiyar has worked in leadership roles to nurture institutional spaces that innovate using social science methods to produce empirically grounded, policy-relevant research on the Indian state and contemporary policy challenges. She has published widely in academic publications and the popular press, and writes regularly on current affairs and policy in mainstream Indian newspapers.
1: Introduction
Part I: Listening to the Frontline
2: On State Capacity and the Reforms Puzzle
3: Talking Like the State
4: The Making and Shaping of the Government Schoolteacher
5: Reframing the Debate on Frontline Worker Motivation
Part II: Rewriting the Grammar of the Education System: Describing Delhi's Education Revolution
6: Education Policy in India: A Tale of Contested Ideas and Creative Resistance
7: Delhi's Education Revolution: Unpacking the Key Components
8: From Hierarchy and Legalism to Deliberation
9: Inside the Classroom: Creative Disruption or Creative Resistance?
Part III Building State Capacity: A Voyage of Discovery
10: Reframing the State Capacity Debate
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.02.2025 |
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| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 392 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-892263-9 / 0198922639 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-892263-6 / 9780198922636 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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