The Accommodation of Democracy
A New Political Economy of Poverty Alleviation in Rural India
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 18 March 2026
- ISBN 9780197813157
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages376 pages
- Size 234x160x28 mm
- Weight 472 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 67 b/w line drawings; 17 maps; 4 b/w photographs; 41 tables 688
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Short description:
In The Accommodation of Democracy, Thibaud Marcesse documents the implementation of the world's largest publics works program--called the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme or NREGS--in India's most populated state, Uttar Pradesh. Marshaling a mix of qualitative and quantitative data, he provides insights not just into the way social benefits are delivered to the rural poor in India but also how local democratic institutions work to either facilitate or constrain the delivery of these benefits. He further discusses the ways in which corruption shapes political relationships, particularly between government bureaucrats and local elected officials.
MoreLong description:
In The Accommodation of Democracy, Thibaud Marcesse investigates the implementation of a large poverty alleviation program, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme or NREGS, in Uttar Pradesh, one of India's poorest and most populated states. The product of legislation passed by India's parliament in 2005, NREGS is unique in that it creates an employment guarantee for all rural citizens to 100 days of work at a statutory wage rate. It is also the embodiment of a push to democratize local government in India and to empower citizens to make claims on the state. But, as the author argues, the implementation of NREGS has varied significantly, both among Indian states, and at the local level within the different Indian states.
Through the use of various data sources, along with qualitative insights from a rural district of Uttar Pradesh, Marcesse develops his theory of democratic accommodation, where the claims made by citizens are not only shaped by levels of economic and status-based inequality, but also by the intervention of local elected officials and bureaucrats. A sobering account of actual democratic practice in the world's largest democracy, The Accommodation of Democracy highlights that while local level democratization has considerably expanded the scope of political participation at the local level in India, it has yet to translate into a meaningful democratic deepening among its rural communities.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
Chapter 1: Introduction: How Meaningful has India's Democratic Deepening been?
Chapter 2: A Theory of Democratic Accommodation
Chapter 3: The Terrain of Local Level Democratization in Rural Uttar Pradesh
Chapter 4: How a Democratic Deepening Shapes Program Outcomes
Chapter 5: Patronage Guaranteed? Partisanship and Program Outcomes
Chapter 6: Party-Voter Linkages and Political Alignment
Chapter 7: Accommodating Democracy: Rent Seeking as a Political Strategy
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Appendix One: Data Sources and Datasets
Appendix Two: Democratization and program outcomes (Chapter 3)
Appendix Three: Partisanship and Program Outcomes (Chapter 4)
Appendix Four: Partisan Alignment and Program Outcomes (Chapter 5)
Bibliography
Index
