Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Figures, Maps, and Tables VII
4. Acknowledgments IX
5. Introduction: Institutions, Rationality, and Poverty Alleviation 1
6. Chapter 1: Organizational Processes of Policy Implementation 15
7. Chapter 2: Rational Success, Political Failure: Programs to Benefit the Rural Poor during the New Deal 38
8. Chapter 3: Making Employment an Entitlement: Maharashtra's Employment Guarantee Scheme 88
9. Chapter 4: Politics Takes Command: Implementation of the National Rural Employment Programme in West Bengal 127
10. Chapter 5: The Politics of Rationality and the Rationality of Politics 173
11. Statistical Appendix to Chapter 3: Relationships between Social Economic Variables and the Spatial Distribution of EGS Employment Generation 207
12. Notes 215
13. Works Cited 273
14. Index 305