TY - JOUR
T1 - Politics of economic liberalization in India
AU - Kohli, Atul
N1 - Funding Information:
for this project has been supported by the Ford Foundation and by Princeton University, especially its Center for International Studies. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual meetings of The American Political Science Association (Chicago: September, 3-6, 1987). I would like to thank the foliowine for their help: Bashiruddin Ahmed, Jagdish Bhagtiatc Donald Crone, Jyotirindra Dasgupta, John Echeverri-Gent, Stephen Haggard, Robert Kaufman. John P. Lewis, Guillermo O’Donnell, Ashutosh Varshney, John Waterbury and Myron Weiner.
PY - 1989/3
Y1 - 1989/3
N2 - Attempts at "liberalizing" India's import-substitution model of development have had a mixed record. Some success in changing the policy regime highlights the role of a new technocratic leadership that has received support from both Indian business groups and from external aid agencies. Conversely, "popular sectors" within India-including the rank and file of the ruling party, the organized workers in the public sector, and the numerically significant middle and lower peasantry - have registered their opposition. While the government remains committed to liberalizing the economy, the momentum has slowed down and, given the pressures of electoral politics, a populist economic program has been simultaneously readopted. It appears that the marriage of political and economic liberalism may not be an easy one in countries like India.
AB - Attempts at "liberalizing" India's import-substitution model of development have had a mixed record. Some success in changing the policy regime highlights the role of a new technocratic leadership that has received support from both Indian business groups and from external aid agencies. Conversely, "popular sectors" within India-including the rank and file of the ruling party, the organized workers in the public sector, and the numerically significant middle and lower peasantry - have registered their opposition. While the government remains committed to liberalizing the economy, the momentum has slowed down and, given the pressures of electoral politics, a populist economic program has been simultaneously readopted. It appears that the marriage of political and economic liberalism may not be an easy one in countries like India.
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U2 - 10.1016/0305-750X(89)90205-2
DO - 10.1016/0305-750X(89)90205-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0024485080
SN - 0305-750X
VL - 17
SP - 305
EP - 328
JO - World Development
JF - World Development
IS - 3
ER -