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...
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...
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...
