phenomenon of ‘paid news'. Different institutions, the Election Commission of India (EC) and the judiciary being the most active …India has been struggling to regulate campaign finances for long. A more recent addition to the predicament is the … out the legal regime administering it in India. The monitoring of campaign finance is legislatively entrusted with the EC …

Civil society in Independent India has perhaps never been as active as it is today, except in the years before and … during the emergency. We explore the role it has played in strengthening and deepening democracy. We focus largely on the … democracy and good governance. A brief outline of developments since Independence shows that the number of parties has grown …

significant effect in the pre-election year. In addition, we found evidence suggesting that though democracy significantly lowers … results of the system GMM revealed that the fiscal deficit is significantly large in election years and the deficit spending … spills into the year after the election, though not as high as in the election year. We could not, however, find a …

Despite the growing public debate on fiscal surprise during election periods in jurisdictions where the democratic … study provides evidence from the dynamic system GMM and the ordinry least squares estimators to show that- (1) election … servicing commitments even in election periods. Policy recommendations are provided in line with the growing levels of debt …