Pranay Kotasthane and Raghu S. Jaitley on Individuals and the Indian State
Ideas of India
The Roving Bandits in Democracy
Within democracies you can have roving bandits and stationary bandits, right? No man's history. If there is more stake of the people in the way things are governed around them, then you have a stationary bandit kind of model. So for example, our current local government architecture isn't about that - we don't know where our taxes go away. And most of the local governments are governments which are dependent on grants from either the state or the union government. But China managed to get a very different version of this roving and stationary bandits altogether.
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