Colonization and Social Policy
A Bureaucratic Regime Approach to Analysing Social Policy in South Asia from the Colonial to the Post-Colonial Era
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"Featuring a compelling theoretical framework centred on the concept of bureaucratic regime, this concise monograph is must read for students of public policy in South Asia and for scholars interested in the impact of bureaucratic structures on social welfare."
—Daniel Béland, Professor, McGill University, Canada
"This thoughtful study should be read by students and scholars wanting to better understand how global forces impact on welfare systems under different historical and development conditions."
—Nicola Yeates, Professor, The Open University, UK
"This innovative focus on bureaucratic regimes offers new insights to understanding the trajectories of social policy programs, and contributes to important debates in the disciplines of social policy, development studies, and in public administration."
—Azad Singh Bali, Associate Professor in Public Policy, University of Melbourne, Australia
This book examines the development of social policy in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan through the framework of bureaucratic regimes. It traces the institutional continuity from the colonial Indian Civil Service to its post-colonial successors - the Bangladesh Administrative Service, the Indian Administrative Service, and the Pakistan Administrative Service - revealing how these enduring structures have shaped social policies, influenced welfare outcomes, and reinforced social inequalities. Adopting a comparative historical institutionalist approach, the book advances theoretical and empirical understanding and offers a fresh perspective on welfare regimes in the Global South. The book will be of particular value to scholars of social policy, political science, development studies, and public administration, as well as to policymakers and international organizations committed to reforming government structures for more inclusive and equitable welfare systems.
Zahid Mumtaz is a Senior lecturer and a Research Associate at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Australia, and a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. His research explores welfare regimes in the Global South, bureaucratic regimes, community welfare regimes, and the interplay between formal and informal social protection. He also advances innovative methodologies by applying classical and quantum machine learning to policy analysis. He has published widely in leading social and public policy journals and is the author of Informal Social Protection and Poverty.
This book examines the development of social policy in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan through the framework of bureaucratic regimes. It traces the institutional continuity from the colonial Indian Civil Service to its post-colonial successors - the Bangladesh Administrative Service, the Indian Administrative Service, and the Pakistan Administrative Service - revealing how these enduring structures have shaped social policies, influenced welfare outcomes, and reinforced social inequalities. Adopting a comparative historical institutionalist approach, the book advances theoretical and empirical understanding and offers a fresh perspective on welfare regimes in the Global South. The book will be of particular value to scholars of social policy, political science, development studies, and public administration, as well as to policymakers and international organizations committed to reforming government structures for more inclusive and equitable welfare systems.
Reveals how bureaucracies contribute to shape social welfare and inequality in South Asia Exposes colonial legacies still driving India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh Bridges welfare regime theory and bureaucracy to rethink social policy
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Zahid Mumtaz
Themen in »Colonization and Social Policy«
South Asian Social Policy Colonisation, Social protection in South Asia Developing and Less Developed Countries South Asian Public Service Bureaucratic Regimes