Economic governance
Does it make or break a dominant party equilibrium? The case of India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6298750 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chanchal Kumar Sharma (0000-0003-3538-7148, Central University of Haryana, corresponding author), Wilfried Swenden (0000-0002-8168-340X, University of Edinburgh) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 451-465 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-5121 • E-ISSN: 1460-373X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0192512119866845 |
| OpenAlex | W3161491294 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 23 |
Why do voters re-elect the same party for prolonged periods of time even when there are reasonable alternatives available? When and why do they stop doing so? Based on a quantitative analysis of elections between 1972 and 2014, we test the significance of ‘economic governance’ for the continuance and fall of one-party dominance. With data from India we show that, under a command economy paradigm, a national incumbent party sustains its dominance by playing politics of patronage, but in a marketized economy, state governments gain considerable scope in managing their economic affairs. This enables different state parties to create a stable pattern of support in states. As state-level effects cease to aggregate at the national level, the party system fragments. However, such an aggregation can re-emerge if a single party consistently delivers in the states which it governs
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |