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This paper discusses the developments of the economic reform process in Andhra Pradesh (AP), India. It characterizes reform in AP while reviewing the more general literature on policy processes, particularly as far as this deals with the politics of/in these processes. Moreover, the author analyzes a number of important characteristics of policy processes in AP and discusses some shifts in the policy discourse. The paper ends with a discussion of the various ways in which ‘politics’ is important in the policy process in AP and further summarizes the main contradictions of the process.