Comparativist scholarship conventionally gives unbridled primacy to external, material interests–chiefly votes and rents–as proximately shaping political be

Penned by a recently-retired senior bureaucrat who is well versed in the administrative machinery of the Government of India and who possesses the ease and flai

The malaise of corruption has become deeply embedded in the political and social fabric of the Indian society. The increased frequency and scale of corruption h

Why do some governments improve public services more effectively than others? Through the investigation of a new era of administrative reform, in which digital

Argues that a corrupt state maintains the façade of rule of law but will not permit any inquiry beyond that of individual deviance.