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Gareth Nellis
Gareth Nellis is the Evidence in Governance and Politics postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focusses on political parties, in particular the origins and persistence of weakly institutionalised party systems, and the extent to which parties matter for key development outcomes. A second strand of work addresses the drivers of discrimination against internal migrants in fast-urbanising settings. He holds a Ph.D. from Yale University.
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Do political parties matter for ethnic violence? The Congress and Hindu-Muslim riots in India
India has seen frequent violent clashes between Hindus and Muslims since independence. This column analyses an important yet largely overlooked driver of ethnic violence: the ruling political party at the local level. In particular, it provides the most credible test to date of the effect of local Congress incumbency on Hindu-Muslim violence in the country.
