Understanding the Indian voter
By: Milan Vaishnav
Contributors: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Series: Carnegie paper; Working papers (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Elections; Voting research; Politics and government; Population
Description: "The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP's) historic victory in India's 2014 general election prompted declarations of a watershed in the behavior of the Indian voter. Upon closer inspection, the reality is more nuanced. On some parameters, such as voting based on economic and ethnic considerations, there were indeed discernible changes. However, the empirical evidence suggests these shifts were well under way before 2014. In other areas -- namely, support for regional parties, dynastic politicians, and candidates associated with criminal activity -- contemporary voters demonstrated much greater continuity with the past"--Publisher's web site.
Notes: "June 2015."

Series from resource home page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 43-47).
Table of contents: title: Summary; title: Introduction; title: The commonly held beliefs; title: Moving toward "it's the economy, stupid"; title: The arrested rise of regional parties; title: Popular mandate for dynastic politicians; title: Support for candidates tied to crime; title: Messy realities of ethnic voting; title: Conclusion.