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The dynamic electoral returns of a large antipoverty program

Zimmermann, Laura - In: The review of economics and statistics 103 (2021) 5, pp. 803-817

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Effect of Redrawing of Political Boundaries on Voting Patterns : Evidence from State Reorganization in India

Chakrabarti, Rajashri - 2007

context of a reorganization of states in India. In 2000, Madhya Pradesh, the biggest state in India before the reorganization …

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Measuring Electoral Competitiveness : With Application to the Indian States

Dash, Bharatee Bhusana - 2018

We consider alternative methods of measuring the competitiveness of a majoritarian electoral system in the context of an analysis of Indian State elections. Our analysis highlights a number of weaknesses in the construction and interpretation of commonly used measures such as the effective...

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Unstable Politics : Fiscal Space and Electoral Volatility in the Indian States

Nooruddin, Irfan - 2009

What explains variation in electoral volatility? We argue that fiscal space - availability of financial resources to enact policy initiatives and provide public programs - possessed by governments can explain the level of electoral volatility. Where governments have fiscal space, citizens reward...

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Party system and election studies

Kothari, Rajni (contributor) - 1967

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Religious Riots and Electoral Politics in India

Iyer, Sriya - 2015

societies. Religious riots have claimed more than 14,000 lives in India since 1950. We study the effect of Hindu-Muslim riots on … election results in India. We combine data on riots, which have been geo-coded, with electoral data on state legislature … states in India over a 21 year period from 1981-2001.We suggest a new instrument that draws upon the random variation in the …

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The Effects of Social Media Tone on Engagement : Evidence from Indian General Election 2014

Mallipeddi, Rakesh - 2020

Individual celebrities or “human brands” in fields ranging from sports to art to politics use social media platforms to connect and engage with their audience. We analyze the effects of the content generated by human brands (referred to as human brand generated content) on the popular social...

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Politics Before Pupils? Electoral Cycles and School Resources in India

Fagernäs, Sonja - 2014

Primary education in India is a development question of a unique magnitude, and the delivery of education by Indian …

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The Runner-Up Effect

Anagol, Santosh - 2014

Exploiting regression discontinuity designs in Brazilian, Indian, and Canadian first-past-the-post elections, we document that second-place candidates are substantially more likely than close third-place candidates to run in, and win, subsequent elections. Since both candidates lost the election...

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Is Partisan Alignment Electorally Rewarding? Evidence from Village Council Elections in India

Dey, Subhasish - 2016

allocation of funds for India's largest social protection programme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in …

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