ABSTRACT

This paper studies the impact of social movements on the Indian state’s developmental paradigm. Adopting from Varigonda’s (2020) framework, the paper argues that the impact of social movements on state policy and its implementation is primarily determined by three key factors: the collective action repertoires of social movements; the politicization of the Indian state’s developmental paradigm; and the openness of state input structures. This framework is tested through a comparative study of two movements that have emerged against two examples of the Indian state’s developmental paradigm: a proposed nuclear plant at Kovvada and a proposed thermal plant at Sompeta, both in Andhra Pradesh. The Sompeta agitation was successful in impeding the thermal plant’s inception while the movement in Kovvada eventually petered out. The paper demonstrates how the variation in the impact of the two movements can be attributed to the social movement in Sompeta benefitting from stronger collective action repertoires; greater politicization of the state’s developmental paradigm; and more open state input structures, vis-à-vis the movement in Kovvada.

摘要

本文研究社会运动对印度国家发展范式的影响。本文采用Varigonda（2020）的框架，认为社会运动对国家政策及其实施的影响主要由三个关键因素决定：社会运动的集体行动库；印度国家发展模式的政治化；以及国家投入结构的开放性。该框架通过对印度国家发展范式的两个例子进行的两项运动的比较研究进行了测试：拟议的科夫瓦达核电站和拟议的松佩塔热电厂，均位于安得拉邦。索佩塔的煽动成功地阻止了热电厂的启动，而科夫瓦达的运动最终逐渐平息。本文论证了这两个运动影响力的差异如何归因于松佩塔的社会运动受益于更强大的集体行动手段；国家发展范式更加政治化；以及针对科夫瓦达运动更加开放的国家投入结构。