The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 303 out 543 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The victory was a clear landslide for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party. However, we wanted to look at how much of a fight the competition put up. To do this, we used the difference between the votes receive...
Last month, various political parties released their election manifestos. Manifestos play an important role in the electoral process: apart from promoting political parties' visions, they are crucial signaling devices, shedding light on party priorities and ideologies. What political parties actuall...
This Scroll article quotes an IDFC Institute 2015 article to discuss the effect of holding simultaneous elections at the Legislative Assembly and the Parliamentary level on election outcomes. The article states:
"A 2015 study by the IDFC Institute found “a 77% chance t...
In this Hindustan Times article, Milan Vaishnav and Jamie Hintson from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, quote IDFC Institute research on the economic regional divergence between States. The article states:
".....the wealth gap between India’s states has exploded in recent d...
In this CNBC-TV18 programme, Research Director and Senior Fellow Niranjan Rajadhyaksha analyses how the macros fared during the BJP tenure since 2014. The programme also features Rathin Roy, director of NIPFP & Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) and Maitreesh...
India’s electoral constituencies remain frozen in time: they still represent populations based on the 1971 census. While our population has grown by leaps and bounds, the number of constituencies have remained the same. Consequently, while each Lok Sabha Member of Parliament represented approximat...
In this 'India Elects 2019’ series article on the Hindustan Times, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Milan Vaishnav and Jamie Hintson quote Resident Senior Fellow Vivek Dehejia and former Visiting Senior Fellow Praveen Chakravarty's work on regional divergence. Excerpts:
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This NewsNation article features former Resident Senior Fellow Praveen Chakravarty's research on electoral data. Excerpts:
"Another reason is that during elections communalism, casteism, corruption and crony capitalism are at their peak. Frequent elections mean there is no respite...
This Mint article features our Briefing Paper on Political Diversity and Competition in India. Excerpts:
"Pre-poll alliances are widely expected to play a critical role in upcoming state elections and next year’s general elections. These alliances, a reflection of India’s...
Vivek Dehejia, Resident Senior Fellow at IDFC Institute, is quoted in a Financial Times article on how Narendra Modi is trying to shore up his flagging support among farmers, before next year's election. Excerpts:
"It is the triumph of populism over good economics,â...
