New Forms of Urban Governance in India: Shifts, Models, Networks and Contestations

Baud, I.S.A.; Wit, Joop de

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“…Brokers have become regular protagonists in the literature on clientelistic politics, which highlights how politicians rely on brokers to provide voters with preferential access to state resources in exchange for electoral support (Stokes et al 2013). Brokers also figure increasingly often in studies on public service provision and local governance, which highlight the way in which informal machination by brokers often ends up distorting the impact of state policies (Veron et al 2003;Baud and de Wit 2008). Brokers make further appearances in studies on the 'anthropology of the state' , which highlight their importance in shaping the ways in which citizens experience the 'everyday state' (Fuller and Bénéï 2001;Corbridge et al 2005).…”

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Brokers and citizenship: access to health care in Indonesia

Berenschot

Hanani

Sambodho

2018

Citizenship Studies

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Faced with unresponsive and intimidating bureaucracies, citizens across particularly the global south regularly rely on intermediaries to gain access to public services. Focusing on how such brokers arrange access to health care in Indonesia, this essay discusses the impact of brokered state-citizen interaction on the character and experience of citizenship. On the basis of extensive fieldwork in both urban and rural Java we argue that brokers not only enable the realization of citizen rights, they also transform the experience and interpretation of these rights. Brokers 'vernacularize' citizenship, in the sense that citizenship comes to be experienced and interpreted not just in terms of a formal relationship with a national state, but also in terms of the character of personal relationships and attendant obligations that exist between citizens, brokers and power holders.

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Section: Brokerage and Citizenshipmentioning

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Brokers and citizenship: access to health care in Indonesia

Berenschot

Hanani

Sambodho

2018

Citizenship Studies

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“…For India, this is highlighted by the malfunctioning ward committees (Baud & de Wit 2009, Kennedy 2009) and in Pakistan, by the lack of accountability of local representatives (Cheema et al 2005). continuity with a phenomenon observed with regularity since the 1960s (Kumar 2006, Sivaramakrishnan 2000.…”

Section: Governance Studiesmentioning

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Introduction. Urban Democracy: A South Asian Perspective

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Zérah²

2011

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“…In other words, when it deals with parochial issues, without having a city‐wide perspective, it falls into a ‘local trap’ (Purcell, 2006). By enhancing a local dimension of governance, participation is prone to capture by elites or political parties and patronage networks, resulting in an increase in patronage (Baud and de Wit, 2009; Harriss, 2007). 3…”

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“…In the provision of urban services, reliance on privatization to large companies is limited (Zérah, 2006). Reforms have focused on different kinds of partnerships, often relying on small companies (Baud and de Wit, 2009). Public sector reform is underway, but the influence of new public management is overlaid by specific South Asian management features (Davis, 2004).…”

Section: Participatory Governance and Urban Services In Mumbaimentioning

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Participatory Governance in Urban Management and the Shifting Geometry of Power in Mumbai

Zérah

2009

Development and Change

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This article questions the participatory dimension of urban governance in Mumbai. Based on surveys of a number of participatory projects for urban services, it compares the differentiated impacts of participation in middleclass colonies with those in slums. Results demonstrate that changing citizengovernment relationships have led to the empowerment of the middle and upper middle class who harness the potential of new 'invited space' to expand their claims on the city and political space. In contrast, the poor end up on the losing side as NGOs function more as contracted agents of the State than as representatives of the poor. Direct community participation empowers influential community members, small private entrepreneurs and middlemen, and contributes to labour informalization. Ultimately, these processes consolidate a form of 'governing beyond the State' that promotes a managerial vision of participation and leads to double standards of citizenship.

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New Forms of Urban Governance in India: Shifts, Models, Networks and Contestations

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Brokers and citizenship: access to health care in Indonesia

Brokers and citizenship: access to health care in Indonesia

Introduction. Urban Democracy: A South Asian Perspective

Participatory Governance in Urban Management and the Shifting Geometry of Power in Mumbai

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