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Political, administrative and institutional power
Reservation administration, representation, budget allocation, local capture, and accountability institutions shape access to public power.
This mechanism spine is a research hypothesis supplied by the package and must be tested expression by expression.
10 expressions
- Reservation implementation and backlog vacancies ind-caste-061
- Reservation evasion through outsourcing, contracting and privatization ind-caste-062
- Caste-certificate denial, classification disputes, fraudulent claims and gatekeeping ind-caste-063
- Representation in civil services and senior bureaucracy ind-caste-064
- Representation in the judiciary, police, prosecution and legal profession ind-caste-065
- Representation in Parliament, state legislatures and local government ind-caste-066
- Proxy control or coercion of representatives elected from reserved seats ind-caste-067
- Dominant-caste capture of panchayats, municipalities and local resources ind-caste-068
- Allocation, diversion and underuse of SC/ST development funding ind-caste-069
- Effectiveness of commissions, grievance mechanisms and institutional accountability ind-caste-070