ABSTRACT

After the COVID-19 disaster, ‘old’ frailties and inadequacies in agriculture and industrial productive capacities, in public health and transport systems have evinced sharply in the open, reopening the debates over public policy reforms as never before.

This volume:

  • Studies the likely impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on future policy making in India and other democracies.
  • Critically looks at the available theoretical frameworks, models and approaches used in the policy making process and studies their contemporary relevance.
  • Balances theoretical approaches with concrete case studies.
  • Examines India’s policies on education, health, e-governance, gender and work, and also provides recommendations for the future.

An important and timely contribution, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researches of public administration, public policy, political theory, globalization and global democracy.

chapter |21 pages

Introduction

section Section I|75 pages

Public Policy Frameworks, Theories and Approaches

chapter 2|7 pages

Policy Making

Challenges to multidisciplinary approaches

chapter 3|13 pages

Public Policy Communication

Reclaiming a ‘nearly lost’ theme

chapter 4|14 pages

Connecting the Dots, Locating the Linkages

Conceptual perspectives on human rights, human security and public policy

chapter 5|9 pages

Ethics and Public Policy

How ‘just’ can public policy be?

chapter 6|15 pages

Changing Paradigms of Strategic Political Process in Public Policy Formulation and Governance

Comparative study of GST in India and NAFTA in the US

section Section II|113 pages

Policy Making in India

chapter 7|15 pages

Promoting Quality Policy Research in India

Need for an evidence-based approach

chapter 8|12 pages

State and Public Policies in India

A symbiotic relationship

chapter 9|12 pages

ICT Applications in Land Records Administration in India

A study on the implementation of DILRMP

chapter 11|18 pages

Recent Transition in India’s Public Health Policy

Layering patterns and inherent bottlenecks

chapter 12|12 pages

Emotive Policy in a Political Democracy

Case study of Kanyashree in West Bengal

chapter 13|12 pages

Efficacy of MGNREGS in Achieving SDGs

chapter 14|12 pages

The Indian State, Democracy and the Citizen

Public policy challenges in the post-COVID-19 era