What determines the allocation of publicly-provided goods to rural households in India? Although empirically driven this paper draws on the characteristics of India's institutional structure and the implications of existing literature for framing the answer to this question. We confront the main...

Much of the recent political economy and political science literature views democracy in one-dimensional terms, primarily in terms of political rights. This feature is particularly pronounced in the empirical literature, especially in the recent strand that seeks to identify the determinants of...