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Aligning with One’s Own : Private Voting and Public Outcomes in Elections in Rural India

Jha, Raghbendra - 2011

through increased access to welfare programs. Using newly available data from rural India, we establish that identity based … voting will lead to enhanced participation in welfare programs and increased consumption growth. We also show that … consumption growth is retarded if households do not engage in identity based voting. Using 3 stage least squares, we are able to …

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Crime and Punishment : Do Politicians in Power Receive Special Treatment in Courts? Evidence from India

Poblete-Cazenave, Rubén - 2021

for the largest democracy in the world, India. Using a regression discontinuity design, I compare the probability of a …

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When criminality begets crime : the role of elected politicians in India

Prakash, Nishith; Sahoo, Soham; Saraswat, Deepak; … - 2022

crime in India. We exploit the quasi-random variation in the outcome of close elections between candidates with and without …

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The workforce of clientelism : the case of local officials in the party machine

Shenoy, Ajay; Zimmermann, Laura - 2021

Local politicians can function as crucial intermediaries between voters and party bosses in a clientelistic network. We study their role by matching data on 300 million welfare payments in the Indian state of West Bengal to village-level election returns. Local politicians systematically...

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Non Committed Voters and Economic Growth : Evidence from India

Bhardwaj, Abhishek - 2017

Using actual voting records of simultaneous elections held for Indian federal and regional assemblies-where same political parties contest against each other in both type of elections we identify non-committed voters. These are split ticket voters who vote for different parties in two different...

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Do Criminal Politicians Reduce Corruption? Evidence from India

Chemin, Matthieu - 2008

This paper relates unique data on criminal records of local politicians in India to corruption, crime and poverty …

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Making the Politician and the Bureaucrat Deliver : Employment Guarantee in India

Goyal, Ashima - 2005

employment guarantee scheme (EGS) in India, in the context of Indian history and habits. There are still weaknesses in the … examination of the interactions between politicians and bureaucrats, village self-government, and the water economy in India …

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