BISWAS, RONGILI; MARJIT, SUGATA; MARIMOUTOU, VELAYOUDOM - In: Economics and Politics 22 (2010) 1, pp. 68-91
In the quasi-federal democratic polity that India has, lobbying for central funds by the states is often done in a subliminal fashion. Hence, it becomes difficult to get an account of how much lobbying has been done to a particular end. Our paper attempts at constructing certain political proxy...