[Reader-list] Talk by Bilal Baloch on 'Between Growth and Governance: Does Liberalization Weaken State Capacity?' on 15 May 2015

[Praveen Rai]

 Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

invites you to a talk





*Between Growth and Governance: *

*Does Liberalization Weaken State Capacity?*

by *Bilal Baloch*





*Peter Ronald deSouza* will Chair

Friday, 15 May 2015, 4 pm
                            RSVP

CSDS Seminar Room,
               Tel: 011 23942199

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054
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Please join us for tea at 3.30 pm
                            email: jaya at csds.in





The talk will examine how democratic governments respond to social
movements. The existing literature bifurcates the nature of government
response into the democratic and authoritarian camps, wherein the former
are liberal and conciliatory in their interface with social movements, and
the latter are illiberal and suppressive. However, this framework fails to
capture the deep interplay between electoral politics and state capacity,
which unearths a more critical landscape of governance in developing
democracies. Through a closer study of this interplay in two
democracies-India and Mexico-the speaker hopes to glean a causal
understanding of why some democracies fail to respond adequately to social
movements.



*Bilal Baloch *is a doctoral candidate in comparative politics at the
University of Oxford. Prior to this, he was the Chief-of-Staff to Dean Vali
Nasr at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
in Washington, D.C. He assisted in editing, and contributed research
toward, Dean Nasr's book, *The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy
in Retreat *(2013). He completed undergraduate study in philosophy (BSc) at
the London School of Economics (Anthony Giddens Scholar), and holds a
masters degree in international relations (MALD) from The Fletcher School
of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (Samuel J. Elder Scholar).



His research areas include: democratization and state-society relations,
political violence in the urban setting, foreign policy, multilateralism,
and the use of force (geopolitics consulting).



*Peter Ronald deSouza* is Professor at the Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies.


Praveen Rai
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