AbstractsEconomics
Panchayati Raj in India. The Evolution between 1947 and 1992
| Institution: | Universität Heidelberg |
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| Department: | The Faculty of Economics and Social Studies |
| Degree: | PhD |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Record ID: | 1108064 |
| Full text PDF: | http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/18464 |
Abstract
The main argument of my thesis is that the institutional development of Panchayati Raj between 1947 and 1992 can be analysed as an evolutionary process in the Darwinian sense. I base this on the conjecture that Evolutionary Institutionalism (EI) is the appropriate theoretical approach to do this. The argument is investigated based on two research questions: Can I arrive at the outcome of 1992 if I trace the developments as an institutional evolution from an EI perspective? Is the outcome inevitable?
