This series is designed to fill a visible gap in existing Social Sciences literature: the need to address, empirically investigate and rigorously analyse public policy in the field of governance.
It is important to study the policy world in its entirety because:

• Policies establish the context within which we live out our individual and collective lives and deeply impact the way we and future generations will live and work.
• Policy-making and implementation is a process that is deeply embedded in politics, and serves as an entry point into the politics of a country.
• Public administrators, scholars, journalists, and specialists need to understand the relationship between knowledge systems, technology and the making of policy, the nature of public participation and responses, and how politicians seek to forge networks to ensure that policy is transformed into law.
• Policy-making highlights the linkages between domestic and global contexts. Ideas disseminated through global institutions and civil society networks impact policy-making insofar as they influence identification of problems and propose resolutions.

The literature generated through the series, we hope, will serve to identify the strength and lacunae of the making of policy and its implementation in India.

The Series Editors

• Neera Chandhoke is former Professor of Political Science, University of Delhi.
• Praveen Jha is Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning and Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Informal Sector and labour Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
• C. Rammanohar Reddy is Editor-in-chief at The India Forum, the digital journal-magazine on contemporary issues.

The Series Advisory Board

• Prabhat Patnaik, an eminent economist and editor of the journal Social Scientist, taught at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and is currently Professor Emeritus at the same Centre.
• Akeel Bilgrami is Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, and Professor, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, New York.
• Niraja Gopal Jayal is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi