Tag Search: “democracy”
Why so few women in politics in India?
Women are severely under-represented in political positions across the world. This column analyses constituency-level election data from Indian states to explore why this is so. It finds that while w...
- Mudit Kapoor Shamika Ravi
- 02 January, 2014
- Articles
A plague on all houses
Which is better, India´s liberal capitalism modelled on the US or China´s authoritarian state-controlled capitalism? This column argues that dysfunctional governments in both systems are leading to da...
- Pranab Bardhan
- 13 August, 2012
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Does Female Leadership Impact on the Quality of Public Goods? Evidence from a Public Poverty Alleviation Programme in Andhra Pradesh, India
This project used the nationwide policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women to identify the impact of female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under ...
- Farzana Afridi Vegard Iversen M.R. Sharan
- 01 April, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Public goods, location choice and the voting decisions of the urban poor
India is currently under-urbanised relative to its income level, leading to widespread expectations of large-scale rural-to-urban migration in coming years.
- Abhijit Banerjee Anjali Bharadwaj Rohini Pande Michael Walton
- 30 March, 2011
- IGC Research on India