Costs of democracy : political finance in India /
If it impossible to conceive of democracies sans elections, why is it impossible to imagine elections without the flood of money in politics? How does every general election in India get more expensive than the last one? Stepping into the mucky terrain to find out what enables the average Indian vot...
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New Delhi :
Oxford University Press,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Davesh Kapur ; Milan Vaishnav
- Political finance in a developing democracy: The case of India / Eswaran Sridharan ; Milan Vaishnav
- Money in Election: The role of personal wealth in election outcomes / Neelanjan Sircar
- Builders, politicians, and election finance Davesh Kapur ; Milan Vaishnav
- Navigating fiscal constraints: Dalit parties and electoral politics in Tamil Nadu / Michael A. Collins
- Money and votes: Following flows through Mumbai and Bihar / Lisa Björkman ; Jeffrey Witsoe
- What costs so much in Indian elections? Institutions from recent electoral campaigns in Mumbai / Simon Chauchard
- Whose money, whose influence? Multilevel politics and campaign finance in India / Jennifer Bussell
- Conclusion: Implications for research and policy / Davesh Kapur ; Eswaran Sridharan ; Milan Vaishnav.