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Indias attempt to spur growth, boost exports, and create jobs by establishing Special Economic Zones remains a paradox. While the policy represents an intensification of the countrys increasingly market-oriented development paradigm, implementation has required active government involvement. But an industrialization strategy pioneered in authoritarian China has faced huge political resistance in democratic India. Protest movements arose in many localities where ...
India provides political scientists a unique laboratory of democracy, not only because liberal politics has thrived in what was once considered inhospitable soil, but also because India's federal system offers a controlled environment for inter-state comparative analysis. Each of this book's eight contributors uses a comparison between two states to illuminate contentious issues in one of four aspects of contemporary Indian politics: economic policymaking, ...