Elections The divided ambitions of India’s regional parties March 25, 2019 0 Written by Andrew Wyatt. Indian elections used to be dominated by a single national party, Congress. The first-past-the-post or simple plurality system favoured Congress, which…
Elections Regional Parties in the Upcoming Indian General Election June 29, 2018 3 Written by Ashish Ranjan. The Indian electoral system is highly volatile. The different strategies (and electoral outcomes) of the political parties over the last six…
Elections Why Karnataka Voted the Way It Did June 18, 2018 0 Written by Vishesh Guru. The peculiar post-election scenario, with the attendant outcry about stolen mandates and (im)moral victories, perhaps drowned out the basic question: why…
Elections Kumaraswamy: King of Karnataka May 29, 2018 0 Written by Rahul Verma and Pranav Gupta. Hardly anyone had doubts that H. D. Kumaraswamy and his party Janata Dal (Secular) would emerge as the…
Elections Karnataka: A state election with national implications May 11, 2018 0 Written by M. Sudhir Selvaraj. On May 12th, the state of Karnataka will go to the polls for an election that has significant implications for the…
Elections Party organisation and the state of political parties in India August 17, 2017 1 Written by Dishil Shrimankar. Since independence in 1947, India has maintained a remarkable record of preserving procedural democracy (except a brief interregnum in 1975). A…
