Combining clientelist and programmatic politics in Tamil Nadu, South India

Wyatt, Andrew

doi:10.1080/14662043.2013.749674

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“…Unlike its political rival DMK, MG Ramachandran attracted votes from the poor and women, particularly in rural areas and smaller towns (Subramanian, ). The populist strategy of ADMK differed considerably from DMK, which concentrated on ‘jobs and housing’ (Wyatt, : 44). ADMK facilitated administrative and legislative reforms to assist new policies of affordable service provision administered by the World Bank.…”

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“…The ‘fluid and unstable electoral alliances’ have marked the regional politics of Tamil Nadu since the nineties, with rising numbers of smaller political parties (Wyatt, : 736). This resulted in the emergence of ‘programmatic policies’ with universal appeal (Wyatt, : 28). In tandem with competitive politics, the increasing involvement of private sector reduced the stakes of the urban poor in Chennai.…”

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Shifting approaches to slums in Chennai: Political coalitions, policy discourses and practices

Saharan

Pfeffer

Baud

2018

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Slums pose a persistent challenge for fast growing urban areas in the global South, despite several decades of policy intervention. While Chennai has adopted several strategies ranging from upgrading to reconstruction, the city has been unable to deliver its target of 'clearing' slum settlements. Through an analysis of four enumeration reports and a look at the evolving political contexts and subsequent practices, we illustrate the evolution of slum policy approaches in Chennai since the 1970s. The analysis shows slum practices in Chennai continue to be characterized by an underlying continuity, with relocation as the dominant mode of operation since the nineties. However, approaches to slums have also evolved from paternalistic socialism with in-situ development in the seventies, to approaches characterized by affordability and cost recovery in the eighties, to the aesthetics of global cities in the nineties, to the technology driven, to slum-free 'smart city' discourse currently in vogue.

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Section: Genealogy Of Slum Approaches In Chennaimentioning

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Section: Genealogy Of Slum Approaches In Chennaimentioning

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Shifting approaches to slums in Chennai: Political coalitions, policy discourses and practices

Saharan

Pfeffer

Baud

2018

Singap J Trop Geogr

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“…From the point of view of the citizens, this seems acceptable since it provides insurance and means to obtain access to scarce public resources. In conditions characterized by low levels of economic development, poverty, and inequality, the demand for access to these resources increase and hence the practice of party-based clientelism becomes predominant in such economies (Robinson & Verdier, 2013;Stokes, 2007;Wyatt, 2013). Notably, the level of political competition and ethnic heterogeneity also matter as far as the extent of political patronage is concerned (Wilkinson, 2006).…”

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Does Political Activism and Affiliation Affect Allocation of Benefits in the Rural Employment Guarantee Program: Evidence from West Bengal, India

Das

2015

World Development

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India’s States: The Struggle to Govern

Manor

2016

Studies in Indian Politics

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This article analyzes recent variations in governing strategies in different Indian states. Those variations mean that the 'Indian state', as citizens experience it, takes different forms in different states. Between 1989 and mid-2014, no single party could gain a parliamentary majority. That caused a major decentralization of power away from the once dominant Prime Minister's Office-horizontally to other institutions at the national level, and vertically downward to governments at the state level. Ironically, that decentralization of power at the national level was accompanied by a marked centralization of power in the hands of chief ministers within many states. This is connected to a surge in state and central government revenues after 2003, and to India's far from neoliberal economic order which leaves huge discretionary power in politicians' hands. Various devices-legitimate and illicit-which chief ministers use to increase their influence and to survive in power are examined.

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Combining clientelist and programmatic politics in Tamil Nadu, South India

Cited by 47 publications

References 19 publications

Shifting approaches to slums in Chennai: Political coalitions, policy discourses and practices

Shifting approaches to slums in Chennai: Political coalitions, policy discourses and practices

Does Political Activism and Affiliation Affect Allocation of Benefits in the Rural Employment Guarantee Program: Evidence from West Bengal, India

India’s States: The Struggle to Govern

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