The contextualist turn and schematics of institutional fit: Theory and a case study from Southern India

Policy Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 83-102

  Lejano, Raul P ^a   Shankar, Savita ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Asian Institute of Management   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Contextualism; Institutional design; Policy implementation; Policy transfer; Program evaluation

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL POLICY; FUTURE PROSPECT; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; MICROFINANCE; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; RESEARCH; THEORETICAL STUDY;

INDIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 84873523783     PISSN: 00322687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11077-012-9163-9     Document Type: Article

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