Public Policymaking in India

Description This unique volume integrates various elements of thepolicymaking process that have, till date, been dealt withseparately. These include interest group politics, the role of themedia, judicial policymaking, and policy entrepreneurship by civilsociety groups. Policymaking is no longer a privileged activity ofthe government: As the boundary between the government and the'outside' has become more porous, the power of non-state policyactors outside the government has increased enormously. The authorpoints to the ways in which the policymaker can cope with thisbrave new world of policymaking. He also grounds the theory ofpolicymaking in concrete examples of the Green Revolution, economicreforms, patent law amendments, regulation of private educationalinstitutions, and laying down of standards for cola drinks, therebyfacilitating easy comprehension and retention of concepts. Introduction Uniqueness and Typology of Public Policy Policy Processes Basics of Negotiation Theory Agenda Setting, and Scope and Pace of Policy Change Decision-making and Implementation in Government Policy Environment: Interest Groups Policy Environment: The Media Strategic Thinking on the Process and Politics of Policymaking Judicial Policymaking R. V. Vaidyanatha Ayyar is Visiting Professor, Centre forPublic Policy, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.