Book Review: How Solidarity Works for Welfare
Prerna Singh’s book comes with some trailing glory: It won the 2016 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the American Political Science Association, and was also a co-winner of the 2016 Barrington Moore Book Award of the American Sociological Association. It deals with some important questions: Wh...
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| description | Prerna Singh’s book comes with some trailing glory: It won the 2016 Woodrow
Wilson Foundation Award of the American Political Science Association,
and was also a co-winner of the 2016 Barrington Moore Book Award of the
American Sociological Association. It deals with some important questions:
Why do some Indian states have better social service provision and welfare
outcomes than others? What are the conditions that promote social welfare?
What best explains the stark variations in educational and health outcomes
within India? How might it be possible to improve outcomes in laggard states
such as Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar towards those achieved by Tamil
Nadu and Kerala?
The comparisons between these three north and two south Indian states
are well known to economists, public health specialists and educationalists,
but there are few good explanations out there that try to account for these
differences. In the feld of political economy, one of theseincreasingly
challengedis that public goods are less likely to be delivered in settings of
social diversity, as indicated by caste, religion or ethnicity. Singh’s contribution
to the debate is that “subnational solidarity fosters a sense of collective
welfare, promotes political awareness and participation, and encourages
popular monitoring of public goods” (55). |
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| spelling | usm.eprints-413982018-08-20T01:45:37Z http://eprints.usm.my/41398/ Book Review: How Solidarity Works for Welfare Singh, Prerna P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) Prerna Singh’s book comes with some trailing glory: It won the 2016 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the American Political Science Association, and was also a co-winner of the 2016 Barrington Moore Book Award of the American Sociological Association. It deals with some important questions: Why do some Indian states have better social service provision and welfare outcomes than others? What are the conditions that promote social welfare? What best explains the stark variations in educational and health outcomes within India? How might it be possible to improve outcomes in laggard states such as Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar towards those achieved by Tamil Nadu and Kerala? The comparisons between these three north and two south Indian states are well known to economists, public health specialists and educationalists, but there are few good explanations out there that try to account for these differences. In the feld of political economy, one of theseincreasingly challengedis that public goods are less likely to be delivered in settings of social diversity, as indicated by caste, religion or ethnicity. Singh’s contribution to the debate is that “subnational solidarity fosters a sense of collective welfare, promotes political awareness and participation, and encourages popular monitoring of public goods” (55). Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press) 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/41398/1/IJAPS-1412018_Art.-11255-257.pdf Singh, Prerna (2018) Book Review: How Solidarity Works for Welfare. International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS), 14 (1). pp. 255-257. ISSN ISSN: 1823-6243 http://ijaps.usm.my/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IJAPS-1412018_Art.-11255-257.pdf |
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