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Ashna Arora
Ashna Arora is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Economics at Columbia University. Her research focusses on crime, labour markets, and political economy. Prior to her doctoral studies, she completed an M.Sc. in Quantitative Economics from the Indian Statistical Institute, and a B.A. (Hons) in Economics from the University of Delhi.
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Election by community consensus: Effects on political selection and governance
Multiple states in India incentivise village communities to elect their political representatives by community consensus, doing away with the need for state governments to organise official secret ballot elections. This article analyses the effects of these incentives in Gujarat for the period 2011-2015. It finds that such elections, like other community-based processes, are prone to capture by the local elite, and can lead to worse governance overall
