The proportion of females in India's population, low compared to other countries, reached its lowest level this century in the 1991 census. India's low sex ratios - defined here as a number of females relative to the number of males - have been scrutinised for well over a century. The persistent...

In his famous study of the impact of electoral regimes on party systems, Duverger suggested that two-party systems are always found to be associated with single-member constituencies where candidates are elected by a plurality of votes (Duverger, 1964).Many studies of what Rae called the...