TY  - GEN
AU  - Auerbach, Adam Michael
TI  - Demanding development : the politics of public goods provision in India's urban slums
SN  - 9781108978880
U1  - 307.33640954 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Cambridge University Press
N1  - Contents
List of Figures     ix
List of Tables      xi
Acknowledgments           xiii
1. Puzzling Disparities at the Margins of the City        1
1.1 The Puzzle of Uneven Public Goods Provision across Slum Settlements 7
1.2 Party Workers and Local Development    16
1.3 Urban Informality and the State   27
1.4 What Is a Slum?      29
1.5 Study Settings and Research Design     35
1.6 Organization of the Book           39
2 Setting the Stage: Governance and Political Parties in Urban India 42
2.1 India at Home in Its Cities and Towns        44
2.2 The Proliferation of Urban Slums           47
2.3 Governance in the Post-Decentralization Indian City    49
2.4 Distributive Politics in India's Slums     56
2.5 Party Organizations in Bhopal and Jaipur     59
2.6 Conclusion          63
3 How Party Worker Networks Impact Local Development   65
3.1 Competition, Connectivity, and Mobilizational Capacity   65
3.2 The Partisan Distribution of Party Workers      80
3.3 Why Party Worker Networks Vary across Settlements   83
3 .4 Conclusion      90
4 India's Slum Leaders 92
4.1 Demanding Development in India's Slums 93
4.2 The Pervasiveness of Informal Leadership 97
4.3 The Construction of Informal Leadership 98
4.4 The Problem-Solving Activities of Slum Leaders IOI
4.5 The Electoral Activities of Slum Leaders 105
4.6 Motivations to Engage in Slum Leadership 108
4.7 Slum Leaders as Party Workers 109
4.8 Conclusion 113
5 Views from the Ground: Historical Narratives from
Eight Squatter Settlements I 14
5.1 Jaipur Case Studies n6
5.2 Bhopal Case Studies 14 3
5.3 Comparative Observations 164
6 Party Workers and Public Goods Provision: Evidence
from 111 Settlements 169
6.1 Survey Design and Data 170
6.2 Other Sources of Data 176
6.3 Variables and Their Measurement 178
6.4 Statistical Models and Results 184
6.5 Causality and Historical Sequencing 200
6.6 Conclusion 205
7 Why Party Worker Networks Spread Unevenly Across
Settlements 206
7. I The Correlates of Party Worker Density and Party
Representational Balance ' 208
7 .2 Why Are Some Settlements More Populous and Ethnically
Diverse than Others? 213
7.3 Conclusion 220
8 Conclusion 222
8.1 Revisiting the Theory and Findings 223
8.2 Implications of the Book's Findings 228
Appendix A Measuring Social Capital 2 3 6
Appendix B Additional Tables and Figures 237
Bibliography 2 76
Index 293

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