Analytic Narratives, Case Studies, and Development

Levi, Margaret; Weingast, Barry R.

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“…Analytic in this approach, refers to creating a narration taken from rational arguments, particularly from the discussions of contextual understanding and derived inferences. Levi and Weingast (2016) identifies the steps toward building these inferences that include the following: extracting the key actors, their goals, the sequence of options available to an actor at a given moment, and the effective rules that influence actors’ choices; elaborating the strategic interactions and learnings that produce some actions and facilitates others; and leading to a comparative understanding that produce testable implications even if they’re not the main assertion of the case.…”

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Why Indian cities are so chaotic? Decoding from the urban development efforts of Chandigarh

Biswas

2019

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to compare and learn from Chandigarh in addressing an orderly urbanisation in India. Chandigarh is considered as a benchmark for city design in India. The aim is recapitulate the city design process and garner useful inputs towards city design process in India.Design/methodology/approachConsidering the purpose of the study, two research methodologies are identified – namely “case study” and “analytical narrative”. A case study method is usually focused on certain urban systems with a view to explain why certain systems were a success and why some ended up being a failure. It mostly concerns itself with questions of efficiency. A narrative analysis seeks to understand urban development process and change. It appeared in disciplines such as policy analysis, urban history, social science, political science and economics. Analytical narrative evaluates the explanatory performance of new genre, using some philosophy.FindingsThis paper contributes in reinvigorating the aura of Chandigarh and its contribution in developing an Indian city with its own identity. It also reflects upon the series of failure among the recent city planning endeavours, and its avenue of differences from the successful case.Originality/valueThe paper contributes in understanding the existing shortcomings of city design approaches in India from the perspective of a relatively successful case of a functional Indian city. It also helps to point out the forgotten dimensions of city design that contributes in creating a functional city.

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Why Indian cities are so chaotic? Decoding from the urban development efforts of Chandigarh

Biswas

2019

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“…In using the model to interpret this case, we are conducting a type of ‘analytic narrative’ by focusing on the comparative statics and off-the-path behavior of the model (Bates et al, 1998; Levi and Weingast, 2016). Specifically, we try to understand the actions of key actors and the subsequent events during the Investiture Controversy through the lens of the compensation comparative static.…”

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Power-sharing ‘discontinuities’: Legitimacy, rivalry, and credibility

Pant

2017

Journal of Theoretical Politics

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Power-sharing arrangements between a leader and a popular outsider can be mutually beneficial and threatening. The literature has focused primarily on the former’s trade-off where a leader gains legitimacy when sharing power with a respected outsider but also subsequently creates a rival who could challenge their rule. Yet this outsider also faces a simultaneous trade-off between power and credibility in acquiescing to the leadership. I incorporate both coinciding trade-offs in developing a formal model to examine such power-sharing arrangements which have been prevalent historically and currently. I illustrate a ‘discontinuity’ in optimal power sharing where a leader either shares nothing or shares a specific amount to compensate the rival for the rival’s lost credibility. Counterintuitively, I further show that the leader should share more power with less trustworthy rivals to reduce their strong incentives to challenge. I then revisit the Investiture Controversy in medieval Europe using these insights from the model.

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Theory, History, and Political Economy

Gailmard

2021

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Analytic Narratives, Case Studies, and Development

Cited by 3 publications

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Why Indian cities are so chaotic? Decoding from the urban development efforts of Chandigarh

Why Indian cities are so chaotic? Decoding from the urban development efforts of Chandigarh

Power-sharing ‘discontinuities’: Legitimacy, rivalry, and credibility

Theory, History, and Political Economy

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