by Faria Pitafi | Apr 27, 2020 | Bilkent University
On 24th March, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a major announcement, declared a nationwide lockdown for three weeks, adding that “Every state, union territory, village and district will be a part of this lockdown.” With this unprecedented move, more than 1.3 billion...
by Abigail Sklar | Feb 12, 2020 | Boston University
India is considered by most to be the world’s largest democracy with a voting population of about 900 million people; however, since the election of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister in 2014, there have been signs of democratic erosion in India. This pattern has only...
by Shei Anapi | Dec 10, 2019 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
“Democracies may die at the hands not of generals but of elected leaders — presidents or prime ministers who subvert the very process that brought them to power” were the strong words of Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt in their book How Democracies Die. In the case...
by Matthew Sparks | Apr 28, 2019 | University of Chicago
The fundamental idea of clientelism, at first glance, naturally seems to be a rather undemocratic practice, considering that such patronage-networking effectively encourages outright vote-buying. Indeed, precisely such a type of behavior has been credibly charged with...
by Julia Fischer | Apr 22, 2019 | University of Chicago
In the world’s largest democracy, India, a five-week election is currently underway to determine the next lower house of Parliament. In this country where 900 million people are eligible to vote, this election is seen by some as a referendum on the incumbent prime...
