World development, 2011-02, Vol.39 (2), p.282-293
2011
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- Titel
- We-ness and Welfare: A Longitudinal Analysis of Social Development in Kerala, India
- Ist Teil von
- World development, 2011-02, Vol.39 (2), p.282-293
- Ort / Verlag
- Oxford: Elsevier Ltd
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2011
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- This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that ethnic diversity negatively influences public goods provision through a longitudinal study of the Indian state of Kerala, which has attained exceptional levels of social development despite high fragmentation along religious and caste lines. This paper argues that it is not objective diversity but a subjective sense of “we-ness,” which is the key determinant of the level of public goods provision and social development. A historical analysis of Kerala illustrates how a cohesive subnational community generates progressive social policy as well as societal monitoring of schools and clinics, which together give rise to relatively high levels of education and health outcomes.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0305-750XeISSN: 1873-5991DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.11.025Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_918049526
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Clinics, Cultural Pluralism, Education, Ethnic pluralism, Ethnicity, ethnicity subnationalism public goods provision social development South Asia Kerala, Health care, Health Problems, India, Kerala, Kerala, India, Local communities, Multiculturalism & pluralism, Public good, Public goods, public goods provision, Public Schools, Public services, Schools, Social change, Social conditions, Social Development, Social history, Social Policy, South Asia, Studies, subnationalism, Welfare economics