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...
What can manifestos tell us about India’s leading political parties? Word frequency analyses of the 2014 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Indian National Congress (INC) election manifestos yield the following results:
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These figures illustrate two key findin...
