Financing India's Elections
Channel: Carnegie Live
Date: 2018-10-31

As India gears up for next year’s general election, there is genuine uncertainty about the eventual outcome of the country’s gargantuan polls. Yet there is widespread consensus on one thing: the 2019 election will be one of the world’s most expensive on record. A new book, Costs of Democracy: Political Finance in India, provides one of the first in-depth investigations of money in Indian politics. Drawing from extensive fieldwork on political campaigns, pioneering surveys, and innovative data analysis, the contributors in this new volume uncover the opaque and enigmatic ways in which money flows through the political arteries of the world’s largest democracy. The book’s co-editors Milan Vaishnav and Devesh Kapur will be joined in conversation by Thomas Carothers and Stephen Spaulding. Annie Gowen will moderate.