South Asia Brown Bag Series Spring 2020: The Intermediate Capacity Trap: Explaining Inertia in India’s Bureaucracy

Event time: 
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
Henry R. Luce Hall (LUCE ), 203 See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Speaker/Performer: 
Amy Basu, Political Science, Yale University

Utilizing India as a case study, this paper constructs a model of bureaucratic state capacity development with the countervailing influences of pro-social motivation and corruption in a procurement context.
Amy Basu is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. Her substantive interests include the political economy of development, state capacity, middle-income countries and the economics of bureaucracy. Her methodological focus encompasses quantitative methods as well as formal theory.