This article aims to contribute to street-level bureaucracy (SLB) theory by bringing to the
forefront the experiences and perspectives of the Global South. Our argument is that …

In the past two decades India experienced an unprecedented expansion of the rights-based
welfare. This expansion cut across a range of sectors− education, employment, public …

Claim-making–the everyday strategies through which citizens pursue rights fulfilment–is
often overlooked in studies of political behavior, which tend to focus on highly visible, pivotal …

People are paramount in the operations of water infrastructure systems. While such
processes are similar throughout most communities in the United States, including treatment …

India has learned what to do and what not to do when it comes to implementing policy to
address human suffering. The COVID-19 pandemic unified the international response in …

The international educational agenda that drives the educational expansion in the Global
South makes universalist assumptions about the role of education in reducing poverty and …

Abstract Governments across the Global South have decentralized a degree of power to
municipal authorities. Are local officials sufficiently knowledgeable about how to execute …

There is a disconnect at the heart of the discourse on public sector governance. On the one
hand, confidence in the public sector has been declining in country after country. On the …

State officials in Weber's rational-bureaucratic ideal type execute the business of the state
rationally and dispassionately. Yet, in practice, the professional lives of bureaucrats are …

The present study delves into the complex interplay of decentralization, patronage, and rent
seeking within the context of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee …