K. V. Raju1, A. Ravindra2

(1. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, India;

2. Center for Sustainable Development, Bangalore, India)

 

 

Abstract: Over the decades, in spite of sustained efforts, stakeholders continue to express concerns about the policy is made and how it will meet future challenges. There are no obvious common measures that could capture the range of effects policies produce; the timescale over which any judgment should be made is contested; and there would be serious difficulties in making causal links between policies and outcomes. This paper explains how policy is made at a state level in India. Its focus is primarily on policy making in the state government, taking place in the interaction between ministers, civil servants and stakeholders. Relatively few studies have tried to do this for government as a whole. It maps the process of policy formulation at the state level and its critical dimensions.

 

 

Key words: policy; transformation; formulation; economy; state; India; Karnataka

 

JEL codes: E6, H7