More than any other general election before it, India’s 2014 contest appears to have been characterised by wide ranging appeals to a politics of anti-corruption. The rising popular appeal … Read the rest
Month: April 2014
This week’s Bookshelf item is Why Institutions Matter: The New Institutionalism in Political Science’ by Vivien Lowndes and Mark Roberts. This important new text provides a broad-ranging introduction
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Rob Jenkins’ excellent post in this blog series (Is “Programmatic Politics” Possible in the Absence of Party Programmes?) argues that the unavailability of party manifestoes makes it very difficult … Read the rest
This is the thirty-fifth in a series of posts that report on the state of the parties as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling … Read the rest
Elections in the largest democracy of the world are a distant and hardly audible soundbeat for its Western neighbour Pakistan. There is a relatively mute response to the cacophony … Read the rest
Three personalities loom large in the upcoming general elections in India: Rahul Gandhi, Narendra Modi, and Arvind Kejriwal. The rise of new and first generation politicians like Narendra Modi … Read the rest
India has had seven consecutive elections (1989 to 2009) in which no single party won a majority of seats in the Lok Sabha, resulting in hung parliaments. In 1991, … Read the rest
Proxy wars represent a perennial strand in the history of conflict. The appeal of ‘warfare on the cheap’ has proved an irresistible strategic allure for nations through the centuries. However, … Read the rest
As a visiting research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice at the School of Politics and IR in February of this year … Read the rest
India’s national election campaign is in full swing. The outcome will not be known until mid-May, when the multi-stage, region-by-region voting process is complete. The first voters head to … Read the rest