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We examine how political participation and political competition are shaped by two class-based extensions of the franchise in 20th-century India. Creating a new dataset of district level political outcomes between 1921 and 1957, we find that the partial franchise extension of 1935 resulted in...
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We argue that economic inequality harms social provisions for the poor, but that higher political competition can mitigate this effect. We test this hypothesis using a large redistricting of electoral boundaries in India and find that higher inequality causes more post-neonatal infant deaths,...
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It has been argued that since 2014, under the BJP-led central government, welfare benefits in India have become better targeted and less prone to clientelistic control by state and local governments. And moreover that this increased vote share of the BJP vis-a-vis regional parties. We test these...
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different schemes and programmes, establish mechanisms of accountability and ensure the right to food for all. …
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for borrowing by subnational units. We then provide a diagnosis of accountability mechanisms, examining their quality of … national and subnational levels in providing accountability in the provision of subnational public goods. Next, we review the … implications of the intergovernmental system and accountability mechanisms on the cooperation of subnational governments and the …
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