The major theme of the book is to search for informal alternatives to indicate variations in legal compliance in the states of India and Nepal which have weak coercive capacities. The eight chapters of the book authored by Susan L Ostermann are sequenced in a manner so as to maintain the logical flow of argument. To begin with, some theoretical points made in the book do not stand the test of reality.
Legal Perspectives at the Margins
Siddhartha Mukerji
CAPACITY BEYOND COERCION: REGULATORY PRAGMATISM AND COMPLIANCE ALONG THE INDIA-NEPAL BORDER by By Susan L. Ostermann Oxford University Press, 2022, 236 pp., £ 63.00
May 2024, volume 48, No 5