Is India Really an Electoral Autocracy? - India Outside In with Salvatore Babones
Channel: Salvatore Babones
Date: 23/03/2021

India Outside In - Salvatore Babones - March 24, 2021
Is India really an "electoral autocracy"?

International NGOs certainly seem to have it in for India. Reporters without Borders (RSF), Freedom House, the Economist, and the Varieties of Democracy Institute have all downgraded India, with the last of these, V-Dem, calling India an "electoral autocracy." Freedom House says that India is only "partly free." What's behind this anti-India hysteria?

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have been democratically elected, are wildly popular, and mostly seem to be just enforcing the law. So what gives? Watch this week's India Outside In to find out.

LINKS
V-Dem: https://www.v-dem.net/en/publications/democracy-reports/
Economist: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/11/28/narendra-modi-threatens-to-turn-india-into-a-one-party-state
Freedom House: https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2021/democracy-under-siege
Reporters without Borders: https://rsf.org/en/india



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