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“The roots of India’s growing problems of governability are more political than socioeconomic, that is, they are located in India’s political structure.” Discuss.

  • UPSC 1996
  • Principal Organs of Government

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The statement restates the central thesis of Atul Kohli, Democracy and Discontent: India's Growing Crisis of Governability (1990). By governability Kohli meant the state's capacity to pursue coherent policy while accommodating competing demands. Surveying the late 1960s to the late 1980s, he argued that poverty and social heterogeneity were constants; what changed was the political…

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