Growing cleavages in India? Evidence from the changing structure of electorates, 1962-2014

This paper combines surveys, election results and social spending data to document a long-run evolution of political cleavages in India. The transition from a dominant-party system to a fragmented system characterised by several smaller regionalist parties and, more recently, the Bharatiya Janata Pa...

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Main Authors: Banerjee, Abhijit (Author), Gethin, Amory (Author), Piketty, Thomas (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: World Inequality Lab, 2020-03-23T19:23:51Z.
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