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What do the Voters Reward: Personality, Party or Performance?
Gupta, Poonam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
important in explaining the results of the 2009 parliamentary elections in India. Our results show that the voters prefer the …
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BRICs versus Other Emerging Economies: The Case of India
Koumparoulis, Dimitrios Nikolaou - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In late April 2013, Jim O’Neill retired as chairman of Goldman Sachs (GS). The 56-year-old British economist, among other accomplishments, left his mark on the still unfolding globalization story by coining the acronym BRIC, referring to the four rapidly developing nations—Brazil, Russia,...
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How Do Indian Voters Respond to Candidates with Criminal Charges : Evidence from the 2009 Lok Sabha Elections
Dutta, Bhaskar; Gupta, Poonam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Sabha elections in India, and find support for all the implications of the model. Our empirical results show that voters do …
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Growth and election outcomes in a developing country
Gupta, Poonam; Panagariya, Arvind - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
developed and developing countries, the hypothesis that rapid growth helps incumbents win elections has been tested exclusively … statistically robust effect of growth on the prospects of the candidates of the state incumbent parties to win elections …. Specifically, we use the data on 422 candidates in the 2009 parliamentary elections and show that the candidates of incumbent …
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Essays on India’s Political Economy    
Singh, Nirvikar - Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, … - 2014
This is a collection of essays written for the Financial Express, an Indian financial daily. The common theme of these essays, which cover a period of almost four years, from September 2010 to June 2014, is the issue of governance in India, and how politics combines with societal and...
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2011 Panchayat Elections in Kashmir
Wani, Aijaz Ashraf - In: South Asian Survey 18 (2011) 2, pp. 279-292
militancy in the state. The 2011 panchayat elections provide the best opportunity to restore the confidence of the people in the …
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Gross Violations of Duverger’s Law in India
Mayer, Peter - In: Studies in Indian Politics 1 (2013) 2, pp. 179-201
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...
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Quid Pro Quo: Builders, Politicians, and Election Finance in India- Working Paper 276
Kapur, Devesh; Vaishnav, Milan - 2011
In developing countries where elections are costly and accountability mechanisms weak, politicians often turn to … indispensible raw material used in the sector, should contract during elections since builders need to inject funds into campaigns …
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Views from the Indian Electorate: Satisfactions and Dissatisfactions with Democracy, Politics and the Economy
Stepan, Alfred - School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), … - 2011
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Growth and Election Outcomes in a Developing Country
Gupta, Poonam; Panagariya, Arvind - School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), … - 2011
developed and developing countries, the hypothesis that rapid growth helps incumbents win elections has been tested exclusively … statistically robust effect of growth on the prospects of the candidates of the state incumbent parties to win elections …. Specifically, we use the data on 422 candidates in the 2009 parliamentary elections and show that the candidates of incumbent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533850