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Claiming the state : active citizenship and social welfare in rural India / Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner

Author
Kruks-Wisner, Gabrielle, 1977-
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Physical Description
xxii, 318 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I INTRODUCTION AND THEORY -- 1.Introduction: Citizenship and Social Welfare -- Claiming Services, Claiming the State -- Citizen and State in India -- Explaining Active Citizenship -- Research Setting -- Research Design -- Organization of the Book -- 2.A Theory of Active Citizenship -- Claim-Making Conditions -- Aspirations toward the State -- 3.Capabilities for Action -- Social and Spatial Exposure -- Scope Conditions -- Applying the Theory -- pt. II CITIZENSHIP PRACTICE IN RAJASTHAN -- 3.The Institutional Terrain of the State -- Expansion of the Social Welfare Sector -- Social Welfare Provision in Rajasthan -- Rajasthan in Transition -- Going Local -- Setting the Stage for Claim-Making -- 4.Seeking the State: Claim-Making Patterns and Puzzles -- The Claim-Making Landscape -- Measuring Claim-Making -- Disaggregating Claim-Making: What, Where, and Who? -- Patterns and Puzzles -- 5.Encountering the State: Citizens' Social and Spatial Exposure -- Social and Spatial Boundaries -- Boundary Porousness -- Increasing Social and Spatial Exposure -- Exposure and Claim-Making Aspirations -- Exposure and Claim-Making Capabilities -- 6.Claiming the State: Exposure as a Catalyst for Citizen Action -- Testing the Relationship -- Analysis and Findings -- What Causes What? -- Correlates of Claim-Making and Exposure -- Aspirations and Capabilities -- Isolation and Connectivity -- pt. III CONSEQUENCES AND EXTENSIONS -- 7.The Consequences of Claim-Making -- Material Access to Social Welfare -- Claim-Making as Quotidian Citizenship Practice -- Other Forms of Political Participation -- The Changing Face of Clientelism -- Rajasthan at a Crossroads -- 8.Conclusion: Active Citizenship in Rajasthan and Beyond -- The Capacity to Aspire -- Beyond Community and Locality -- The Conditioning Effects of the State -- State-Induced and Socially Produced Citizen Action -- Building and Sustaining Active Citizenship -- Appendices -- Appendix I Research Methodology -- Appendix II Correlates of Claim-Making -- Appendix III Correlates of Social and Spatial Exposure -- Appendix IV Testing the Mechanisms: Aspirations and Capabilities -- Appendix V The Consequences of Claim-Making.
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ISBN
9781107199750 hardcover
1107199751 hardcover
9781316649008 paperback
1316649008 paperback
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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