Reading Links
This post comes under the sub-section Reading Links. Under Reading Links, I'll post some interesting readings that I come across everyday. All of them will be connected to the topics we explore at OPW.
In the 2nd edition of OPW, I spoke about how the Indian state overextends it’s strength in terms of personnel and funding by doing too much.
This recent paper by Devesh Kapur, helps us look at the areas where the Indian State fails. It also highlights the other areas where the same State shows impeccable efficiency and organisational capacity. Why does this happen? Is there a framework to look at this? State Capability and the associated trade-offs are very important to understand for a policymaker.
Read this paper to know more.
If you don’t have time to read the entire paper, read my notes here.