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Claiming the State - Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India (Paperback)
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Claiming the State - Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India (Paperback)
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Citizens around the world look to the state for social welfare
provision, but often struggle to access essential services in
health, education, and social security. This book investigates the
everyday practices through which citizens of the world's largest
democracy make claims on the state, asking whether, how, and why
they engage public officials in the pursuit of social welfare.
Drawing on extensive fieldwork in rural India, Kruks-Wisner
demonstrates that claim-making is possible in settings (poor and
remote) and among people (the lower classes and castes) where much
democratic theory would be unlikely to predict it. Examining the
conditions that foster and inhibit citizen action, she finds that
greater social and spatial exposure - made possible when
individuals traverse boundaries of caste, neighborhood, or village
- builds citizens' political knowledge, expectations, and linkages
to the state, and is associated with higher levels and broader
repertoires of claim-making.
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