Public Policy in India

This textbook is a comprehensive, student-friendly guide to public policy in India.It highlights the critical aspects of public policy-making and its implementation by contextualizing it in the Indian historical and modern-day perspective.Public Policy in India: • Provides lucid explanations of theoretical aspects of public policy and its practice in the Indian context; • Captures the complexities in making, implementing and evaluating public policy; • Studies the dialectical interconnection that public policy has with the socio-economic and political environment; • Highlights the influence of culture on public policy; and • Analyses public policy as an outcome of a very complex contextual dialogue involving various kinds of actors.Accessibly written, this book covers a range of university syllabi and will be essential reading for students and researchers of political science and public administration.It will also be indispensable for civil service examinations, including the UPSC.