“One nation,” BJP, and the future of Indian federalism

Aiyar, Yamini; Tillin, Louise

doi:10.1080/14736489.2020.1744994

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“…Since 2014, the BJP has emerged as the dominant party, signalling a return to a one-party-dominant system. Although while dominant at the national level, the BJP has suffered a series of defeats at the state level, indicating that political regionalization remains an important force (Aiyar & Tillin, 2020;Jaffrelot & Verniers, 2020;Schakel et al, 2019;Schakel & Swenden, 2018). 5.…”

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Does India have subnational welfare regimes? The role of state governments in shaping social policy

Tillin

2021

Territory, Politics, Governance

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This article asks whether state governments in India had developed sufficient autonomy during the era of multi-party fragmentation to determine and implement their own distinctive policy agendas in the field of social policy. It uses cluster analysis to look for variation in the welfare regimes of state governments within India's federal system. Employing the metrics of (de)commodification and defamilialization commonly used in the comparative cross-national literature on welfare regimes to assess the extent to which public welfare provision reduces dependence on market forces and family structures, the paper finds that India's states cluster in ways that suggest the existence of distinctive subnational welfare regimes rather than straightforward variation within a national welfare regime. The analysis challenges the national-level bias inherent in previous studies of comparative welfare regimes and offers insights into the operation of regional autonomy within the domain of social policy in India's federal system.

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Does India have subnational welfare regimes? The role of state governments in shaping social policy

Tillin

2021

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“…‘Team India’ was the theme of his first five years, when he focused on decentralization and development. ‘One nation’ is the emerging theme of his post-2019 tenure, with centralization, homogeneity, and ideology taking pride of place (Aiyar and Tillin 2020 ; Jaffrelot and Verniers 2020b ).…”

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Homogenizing nationalists, budding fascists, and truculent exceptionalists: the end of world order in the Indo-Pacific

McKinney

2021

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Building on Ernest Gellner’s theory of the nation-state and drawing on insights from John Lukacs and George Kennan, this article contends that the major powers of the contemporary Indo-Pacific are characterized by conflicting nationalisms. Homogenizing nationalism seeks to form China—a former multiethnic empire—into a unitary nation-state. Budding fascism endeavors to transform India—founded as a secular state—into a Hindu nation in which there is little place for the ‘other.’ And in the USA, truculent exceptionalism readily acknowledges that coexistence with China is no longer possible in the long run. All three powers have an alternative that they might embrace: toleration. But civility, in both domestic and international politics, is increasingly rare. The future of world order in the Indo-Pacific does not look bright.

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“…The GOI replaced the previous structure of separate taxation authority for the Centre and the sub-national states with a shared taxation system for the bulk of the indirect taxes. The Centre and states had collaborated to produce a GST framework with certain veto powers that rest with the Centre (Aiyar and Tillin 2020). Its evolution was a layered process of incremental change under different governments with varied professed ideologies.…”

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Policy paradigms and path dependence: the endogenous roots of institutional displacement and drift in India

Mukherji

Zarhani

2021

GPPG

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This paper demonstrates the impact of path-dependent policy paradigms on institutional progression. This could involve institutional journeys from democracy to authoritarianism, from federalism to centralization, and vice versa. First, we posit that policy ideas are more important than material interests for the evolution of historical paths. Second, the sequence of path construction is equally important. This paper points to the significance of policy ideas for the construction of two sequences-a layering-tipping-displacement path-and a path of institutional drift. Our case work describes how the layered evolution of ideas led to a tipping point that transformed a public sector-driven regime into a private sector oriented one in 1991, thereby unleashing India's rapid economic growth. The causal mechanism suggests that layering leading to a tipping point that displaces the old paradigm can reveal why overtly abrupt change may result from gradual endogenous processes. This is a largely unexplored causal mechanism in comparative politics. The paper also demonstrates that an ideational drift away from the federalising frame evolved since 2014. It has resulted in famishing the Indian sub-national states for development expenditure, especially at the time of COVID-19. Scholars have suggested the causal logic behind conversion, drift, layering and displacement largely based on material factors. This paper connects ideas embedded in policy paradigms with two of these paths.

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“One nation,” BJP, and the future of Indian federalism

Cited by 33 publications

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Does India have subnational welfare regimes? The role of state governments in shaping social policy

Does India have subnational welfare regimes? The role of state governments in shaping social policy

Homogenizing nationalists, budding fascists, and truculent exceptionalists: the end of world order in the Indo-Pacific

Policy paradigms and path dependence: the endogenous roots of institutional displacement and drift in India

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