Christine Molfenter

Universität Heidelberg, Political Science of South Asia, Graduate Student

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Forced Labor and Institutional Change in Contemporaiy India

Christine Molfenter presents the campaign to abolish bonded labor in post-independence India as a... more Christine Molfenter presents the campaign to abolish bonded labor in post-independence India as a case study of national legislation on coerced labor. More specifically, she explores the background to and the subsequent fate of the Bonded Labor System (Abolition) Act of 1976. She draws on the theory of James Mahoney and Kathleen Thelen to argue that a gradual institutional change emerged in the legislative process as a result of layering, "the addition of new rules to already existing ones, through amendments and revisions." For the period 1947-1997 Molfenter distinguishes four stages in the institutional development of the Indian provisions against bonded labor, and shows that a wide range of very different actors played influential roles in their development, varying from the Supreme Court and the National Human Rights Com-mission to—once again—NGOs.

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