Biswas, Rongili; Marjit, Sugata; Marimoutou, Velayoudom - 2010
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 variables to quantify the extent of such lobbying in India. We …