Book Series: Institutions and Development in South Asia Capturing Institutional Change: The Case of the Right to Information Act in India
About the IDSA Series
This series, published by Oxford University Press, interrogates the interplay between globalization, the state, and social forces in the making and un-making of institutions in South Asia. Why do institutions persist and change? Do we need to transcend materialism and dwell in ideas and culture as well to understand why institutions perform and fail?
Series Editors: Himanshu Jha (Author), Rahul Mukherjee (Author), Subrata K. Mitra (Author), Raghbendra Jha (Author)
About the Book
The first book in the Institutions and Development in South Asia series, Capturing Institutional Change: The Case of the Right to Information Act in India (OUP: New Delhi, 2020) by Dr Himanshu Jha tudies the information regime in India from an alternative historical institutional perspective. It examines the what, why, and how of institutional change through the lens of transformation in the ‘information regime’ in India by tracing the passage of the Right to Information Act (RTIA), 2005. Using archival material, internal government documents, and interviews, the author demonstrates that the institutional change resulted from ‘ideas’ emerging gradually and incrementally, leading to a ‘tipping point’.
