000			01067nam a2200145 4500
999			_c26456 _d26456
020			_a9780198098874
082			_a379.54 _bPRI-
100			_aPriyam, Manisha
245			_aContested Politics of Educational Reform in India _b:Aligning Opportunities with Interests
260			_aNew Delhi, India _bOxford University Press _c 2015
300			_axxii,309p.
504			_aInclude Bibliography & index
520			_aThis book analyses the role of politics in the process of social sector policy reforms in the context of developing countries. Considered significant in the real world, politics is missed out by the dominant approaches used to design or analyse the policy process. In the small body of literature available, politics is viewed in a negative way-an obstruction which leads to failure. However, if we focus also on cases of success, we find that it works in a far more nuanced and complex way. Specially, if changes are viewed 'downstream' as people experience them, the reform-politics relationship unravels as a deeply contested process.
942			_2ddc _cBK