Public Policymaking in India

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Brief Contents
4. Contents
5. About the Author
6. List of Figures
7. List of Appendices
8. Foreword
9. Preface
10. 1. Introduction
11. 2. Uniqueness and Typology of Public Policy
    1. Is Public Policy Unique?
    2. Types of Policy
12. 3. Policy Processes
    1. Nature of Policy Processes
    2. Processes in the Executive
    3. Parliamentary Processes
    4. Processes to Manage the Ruling Party–Government Interface
    5. Policy Evolution During Implementation
    6. It Ain’t Over Even After It Is Over
13. 4. Basics of Negotiation Theory
    1. Neustadt: Governance Is Persuasion and Bargaining
    2. Salient Characteristics of Negotiations
    3. Issue, Position and Interests
    4. Substantive and Relational Outcomes
    5. Internal and External Negotiations
    6. Multiparty Negotiations and Coalition Dynamics
    7. Multiple Issues and Linkages
    8. Integrative and Distributive Negotiations
    9. Three Dimensions of Negotiations
    10. Securing Agreements
    11. Constructive Ambiguity
    12. Power in Negotiations
    13. Preparations for Negotiations: Strategic Thinking
    14. Not Everything Can or Should Be Negotiated
    15. Multilateral Negotiations
14. 5. Agenda Setting, and Scope and Pace of Policy Change
    1. The Kingdon Schema
    2. The Power of Ideas: Paradigms and Paradigm Shifts
    3. Policy Entrepreneurship
15. 6. Decision-making and Implementation in Government
    1. Allison’s Models
    2. Simon’s Bounded Rationality and Lindblom’s Incrementalism
    3. SOPs for Policymaking
    4. Models of Implementation
16. 7. Policy Environment: Interest Groups
    1. Classification of Interest Groups
    2. Strategies of Collective Action
    3. Olson’s Logic of Collective Action
    4. Politics of Policy: Wilson’s Matrix
    5. Changing Profile of Interest Group Activity
    6. Structured Pluralism, and Marxist and Public Choice Approach to Interest Group Politics
17. 8. Policy Environment: The Media
    1. Institutional Role
    2. The Double-headed Institution
    3. Changing Profile of the Media
    4. Coverage, Style and Treatment
    5. Ethics
    6. Managing the Media
18. 9. Strategic Thinking on the Process and Politics of Policymaking
    1. Strategic Thinking on Policy Development
    2. Mapping the Situational Context
    3. Mapping the Configurational Context
    4. Current Whitehall Guidelines on Policymaking
19. 10. Judicial Policymaking
    1. Judicial Policymaking in Implementation
    2. Judicial Review
    3. Enhanced Role of Judiciary in Policymaking: Theory of Void and Doctrine of Necessity
    4. Formalism and Legal Realism
    5. Competing Schools of Constitutional Interpretation
    6. Human Rights Paradigm, Judicial Activism and Judicial Globalization
    7. Common Features of Legislative, Executive and Judicial Policymaking
    8. PILs and Innovations in Judicial Procedures
    9. When Can Judicial Policymaking be Effective?
    10. In Conclusion
20. Appendices
    1. Appendix 1
    2. Appendix 2
    3. Appendix 3
    4. Appendix 4
    5. Appendix 5
    6. Appendix 6
    7. Appendix 7
    8. Appendix 8
    9. Appendix 9
21. Notes
22. Bibliography
23. Copyright