Lessons in State Capacity from Delhi's Schools
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 November 2024
- ISBN 9780198922636
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages246 pages
- Size 216x140 mm
- Weight 392 g
- Language English 582
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Short description:
This book offers fresh insights into what it will take to build a high-performing public service delivery system in India and reveals the complex ways in which bureaucratic hierarchies, processes, and belief systems shape state capacity.
MoreLong description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Listening to the Frontline
On State Capacity and the Reforms Puzzle
Talking Like the State
The Making and Shaping of the Government Schoolteacher
Reframing the Debate on Frontline Worker Motivation
Part II: Rewriting the Grammar of the Education System: Describing Delhi's Education Revolution
Education Policy in India: A Tale of Contested Ideas and Creative Resistance
Delhi's Education Revolution: Unpacking the Key Components
From Hierarchy and Legalism to Deliberation
Inside the Classroom: Creative Disruption or Creative Resistance?
Part III Building State Capacity: A Voyage of Discovery
Reframing the State Capacity Debate
