When crime pays
Subtitle: money and muscle in Indian politics
By: Milan Vaishnav
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780300216202
Subjects: Political corruption
Notes: Includs index and bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Lawmakers and lawbreakers : the puzzle of Indian democracy; title: The rise of the rents Raj : India's corruption ecosystem; title: Criminal enterprise : why criminals joined politics; title: The costs of democracy : how money fuels muscle in elections; title: Doing good by doing bad : the demand for criminality; title: The salience of social divisions : how context shapes criminality; title: Crime without punishment : from deep roots to proximate causes; title: An entrenched marketplace : rethinking democratic accountability.