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Modern social movements often challenge the authorities on behalf of the people -major classes an... more Modern social movements often challenge the authorities on behalf of the people -major classes and masses -to alter the prevailing structure(s) and culture, or to arrest a decline, or restore something desirable but lost. They formulate their ideology and strategy of action in an interpretative package that offers an alternative -either evolutionary or revolutionary -to the dominant culture or structure or both. Social movements are thus a mode of collective action involving large numbers of individuals, groups or classes, operating as leaders and followers through organizations of varying degrees of spontaneity or structuration. Modernity has produced at least two overarching systemic institutions of foundational importance in polity and economy, namely, the national state and political economy of capitalism or socialism. The foremost modern classical theorist of the former was George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), and of the latter was Karl Marx (1818-1883). Max Weber (1884-1920) may well be regarded as a neo-classical interpreter of both the state and capitalism, as he sought to interpret more comprehensively the polity and the economy as well as the society. Theories of social movements revolve around the overarching modern structural formations in the domains of the state, the

Among the three classical organs of government, the executive is designed to be in the driving se... more Among the three classical organs of government, the executive is designed to be in the driving seat. In terms of size, it is midway between the legislature and the judiciary. Legislation, execution, and adjudication are, of course, all vital to governance, each contributing to the legitimacy of the state and the regime. The executive in India, comprising the President/Vice President/Prime Minister/ Cabinet, and the Civil Services, with their counterparts in the states, have had a mixed performance marked in the various phases since the commencement of the Constitution in 1950 by tendencies and trends of institutionalisation, decline and regeneration. We elaborate and examine this argument in what follows in this paper.

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Abstract of my research project at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, as a National fell... more Abstract of my research project at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, as a National fellow for two years. I explore the Indian Model of Federalism in a comparative Perspective with Special Reference to Judicial Federalism.

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Independent Regulatory Authorities (IRAs) may be designed to liberalise, constitutionalis, or fed... more Independent Regulatory Authorities (IRAs) may be designed to liberalise, constitutionalis, or federalise a majoritarian democracy in a presidential federal constitution such for example as in the USA by separation of powers, division of powers, a powerful second chamber, and judicial review. Or it may be desired in a parliamentary federal seeking to negotiate a transition of the government to governance under the impact of regional and global integration and neoliberal reforms as for example in India since the 1990s.
IRAs are executive agencies with a certain quantum of autonomy from the executive reporting directly to the legislature and subject to legislative oversight and judicial review.
What are the issues involved in operationalsing and operating IRAs with optimum results?