Collusion, Co-option and Capture: Social Accountability and Social Audits in Karnataka, India.

Autor:	Lakha, Salim, Rajasekhar, Durgam, Manjula, Ramachandra
Předmět:	POLITICAL accountability SOCIAL accounting AUDITING SOCIAL history
Zdroj:	Oxford Development Studies; Sep2015, Vol. 43 Issue 3, p330-348, 19p, 4 Charts
Abstrakt:	The concept of accountability has generated extensive discussion in studies of international development, linking it with good governance, democratisation, participatory development and empowerment. India's national rural employment guarantee scheme, which aims to improve the rural infrastructure and reduce poverty by providing wage work to the rural poor, involves mandatory social audit by the beneficiaries of the scheme, in order to ensure accountability of those implementing the scheme. In this paper, we examine the social audit process in a district in the state of Karnataka to ascertain the role played by the beneficiaries in achieving such accountability. We find that Vigilance and Monitoring Committees, entrusted to spearhead the social audit process in villages, consist mainly of males and cultivators, some of whom are large landowners. We also find that social audits are dominated by the local elite who stifle “voices” from below. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Databáze:	Complementary Index
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