by Reshi Rajan | Oct 13, 2020 | University of Georgia
Over the past six years India has seen the rise of the BJP, India’s center-right party. In the 2014 elections, the BJP’s coalition won the majority of seats in the Lok Sabha (India’s lower chamber), and in 2019, it won an outright majority of seats without the support...
by Defne Basbugoglu | May 26, 2020 | Koç University
Despite its decreasing overall democracy scores, India has progressed forward with LGBT rights on the last decade. Still, LGBT activists and international organisations are not satisfied with the recent developments and the ruling party BJP seems to be trapped in...
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...
