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Electoral goals and center-state transfers : a theoretical model and empirical evidence from India
Arulampalam, Wiji; Dasgupta, Sugato; Dhillon, Amrita; … - 2008
We construct a model of redistributive politics where the central government is opportunistic and uses its discretion to make transfers to state governments on the basis of political considerations. These considerations are the alignment between the incumbent parties at the central and state...
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Measuring electoral competitiveness : with application to the Indian States
Bhusana Dash, Bharatee; Ferris, John Stephen; Winer, … - 2018
We consider alternative methods of measuring the competitiveness of a majoritarian electoral system in the context of an analysis of Indian State elections. Our analysis highlights a number of weaknesses in the construction and interpretation of commonly used measures such as the effective...
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Efficiency consequences of affirmative action in politics : evidence from India
Das, Sabyasachi; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Saroy, Rajas - 2017
quota policy in village elections in a large state in India to test these claims. Consistently, we find that electoral …
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Religious riots and electoral politics in India
Iyer, Sriya; Shrivastava, Anand - 2015
societies. Religious riots have claimed more than 14,000 lives in India since 1950. We study the effect of Hindu-Muslim riots on … election results in India. We combine data on riots, which have been geo-coded, with electoral data on state legislature … states in India over a 21 year period from 1981-2001. We suggest a new instrument that draws upon the random variation in the …
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BJP's demographic dividend in the 2014 General Elections : an empirical analysis
Basu, Deepankar; Misra, Kartik - 2014
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the 2014 General Elections in India and emerged as a single party with absolute …
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May there be victory : government election performance and the world's largest public-works program
Zimmermann, Laura - 2015
A number of developing country governments have introduced ambitious anti-poverty programs in recent years, but the dynamic effects of these initiatives on governments' election performance remain poorly understood. Especially in contexts with low program implementation quality, public support...
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Women legislators and economic performance
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Min, Brian; … - 2018
India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in …
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Organizing National Elections in India to Elect the 543 Members of the Lok Sabha
Nag, Bodhibrata - 2017
There are 833 thousand polling stations in all of the 543 parliamentary constituencies spread over 35 states of India … General elections on a single day over the whole country. So the set of 35 States of India is partitioned into a number of …
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Quid Pro Quo : Builders, Politicians, and Election Finance in India
Kapur, Devesh - 2015
investigate the presence of an electoral cycle in building activity in India consistent with this logic. Using a novel monthly …
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Cash for votes : evidence from India
Mitra, Anirban; Mitra, Shabana; Mukherji, Arnab - 2017
donations to political parties exist. We combine data from state assembly elections in India with household-level consumer …
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