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Politics Before Pupils? Electoral Cycles and School Resources in India
Fagernäs, Sonja - 2014
inspections. We also show that around election years, teachers spend more time on "non-teaching" activities. The political cycles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049079
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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 majority, a result not witnessed since 1984. Not only did it win a majority of seats, it also managed to increase its vote share in almost all states between 2009 and 2014....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423882
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Religious riots and electoral politics in India
Iyer, Sriya; Shrivastava, Anand - 2015
election results in India. We combine data on riots, which have been geo-coded, with electoral data on state legislature … districts. We find that riots occurring in the year preceding an election increases the vote share of the Bharatiya Janata Party … by 5 to 7 percentage points in the election. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388302
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May there be victory : government election performance and the world's largest public-works program
Zimmermann, Laura - 2015
dynamic effects of these initiatives on governments' election performance remain poorly understood. Especially in contexts … time as citizens observe the actual program benefits. This paper analyzes the election impacts of the largest public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011293559
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Is economic development affected by the leaders' education levels? : evidence from India
Jain, Chandan; Kashyap, Shagun; Lahoti, Rahul; Sahoo, Soham - 2022
Although formal education is often considered an indicator of political leaders' quality, the evidence on the effectiveness of educated leaders is mixed. Besides, minimum education qualifications are increasingly being used as requirements for contesting elections, making it critical to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013259838
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When criminality begets crime : the role of elected politicians in India
Prakash, Nishith; Sahoo, Soham; Saraswat, Deepak; … - 2022
This paper estimates the causal impact of electing criminally accused politicians and their nature of criminality on crime in India. We exploit the quasi-random variation in the outcome of close elections between candidates with and without criminal accusations to instrument the share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187867
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Do educated leaders affect economic development? : evidence from India
Jain, Chandan; Kashyap, Shagun; Lahoti, Rahul; Sahoo, Soham - 2022
Although formal education is often considered an indicator of political leaders' quality, the evidence on the effectiveness of educated leaders is mixed. Besides, minimum education qualifications are increasingly being used as requirements for contesting elections, making it critical to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191646
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Cash for votes : evidence from India
Mitra, Anirban; Mitra, Shabana; Mukherji, Arnab - 2017
This paper investigates the prevalence of vote-buying in democratic elections where stringent restrictions on corporate donations to political parties exist. We combine data from state assembly elections in India with household-level consumer expenditure surveys (conducted by NSSO) over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670942
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The Phenomenon of Wasted Vote in Parliamentary Elections of India
Ghosh, Sanmitra - 2011
election. One widely known law in political science, Duverger’s Law, predicts that there should be no “wasted vote” even within … bloc it does not alter the outcome of the election. We also find mixed evidence in favor of the theory that when the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182637
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Politics before pupils? : electoral cycles and school resources in India
Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu - 2014
inspections. We also show that around election years, teachers spend more time on "non-teaching" activities. The political cycles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393363