Integrating the Third Tier in the Indian Federal System Two Decades of Rural Local Governance /

• Main Authors: Sarma, Atul (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Chakravarty, Debabani (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Political science.; Public finance.; Political economy.; Finance, Public.; Governance and Government.; Public Economics.; International Political Economy.; Public Finance.

This book discusses the evolution of the third tier of the Indian federal system, with a focus on rural local governance (commonly known as Panchayati Raj) against the backdrop of important theoretical and empirical literature on the relevance and effectiveness of service delivery in the decentraliz...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Economics of Decentralization
• Chapter 3 Evolution of Panchayati Raj in India
• Chapter 4 Unique Institution of Local Self Government in the Northeast
• Chapter 5 Design of the Panchayati Raj
• Chapter 6 Two Decades of Panchayati Raj
• Chapter 7 Third-tier Government in Inter-governmental Fiscal Transfer Framework
• Chapter 8 Towards Integrating Third-tier in Indian Federal System.