Leela Fernandes, "Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State" (U Washington Press, 2022)
New Books in Environmental Studies
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The Implications of Studying Bureaucracy in Comparative Context
I was hoping if you could talk a little bit about the implications of studying bureaucracy in this highly localized and stratified way. I think that there's still limited research on how bureaucracies actually work in comparative context, so really sort of like fine-grade understandings. And what I found is a much more complicated picture. So for example, I found examples of bureaucrats who really were trying to do the right things when it came to effectively governing water but they were often trapped within larger structures.
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