Gender-Discriminatory Laws and Women’s Economic Agency

India: A Contradictory Record

This chapter provides a review of the role of women in Indian politics, with a focus on female legislators. It begins with an account of the entry of women into politics in the early 20th century. Second, it looks at the gradual increase in the number of women MPs and the barriers they have faced. The...

Kinship in Indian Politics: Dynasties, nepotism and imagined families

While kinship is among the basic organizing principles of all human life, its role in and implications for international politics and relations have been subject to surprisingly little exploration in International Relations (IR) scholarship. This volume is the first volume aimed at thinking systematically...

Benefits and Pitfalls of Google Scholar

Google Scholar (GS) is an important tool that faculty, administrators, and external reviewers use to evaluate the scholarly impact of candidates for jobs, tenure, and promotion. This article highlights both the benefits of GS—including the reliability and consistency of its citation counts and its platform...

Studying Indian Politics with Large-scale Data: Indian Election Data 1961–today

There has been a major shift in how Indian politics is studied, as large-scale data has become easier to access and analyze. In this research note, we describe some useful techniques and tools used for creating and merging large-scale datasets. We also introduce two datasets: constituency-level datasets...

Social Justice through Inclusion: The Consequences of Electoral Quotas in India

Across the world, governments design and implement policies with the explicit goal of promoting social justice. But can such institutions change entrenched social norms? And what effects should we expect from differently designed policies? Francesca R. Jensenius' Social Justice through Inclusion...

Caught in the Act but not Punished: on Elite Rule of Law and Deterrence

Most literature on criminal deterrence in law, economics, and criminology assumes that people who are caught for a crime will be punished. The literature focuses on how the size of sanctions and probability of being caught affect criminal behavior. However, in many countries entire groups of people are...

Competing inequalities? On the intersection of gender and ethnicity in candidate nominations in Indian elections

Quotas for women and ethnic minorities are implemented to increase diversity in political institutions, but, as they usually target only one group at a time, they may end up increasing the inclusion of one under-represented group at the cost of another. Recent work has emphasized the institutional underpinnings...

A sign of backwardness? Where dynastic leaders are elected in India

The inclusive effects of electoral quotas

Caste quotas in politics and development outcomes

Electoral Quotas as a Tool for Fighting Exclusion and Discrimination

Socioeconomic Profile of India’s Old Electoral Constituencies, 1971-2001

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Development from representation? A study of quotas for the scheduled castes in India

This paper estimates the constituency-level development effects of quotas for the Scheduled Castes (SCs) in India, using a unique dataset of development indicators for more than 3,100 state assembly constituencies in 15 Indian states in 1971 and 2001. Matching constituencies on pretreatment variables...

Do Parties Matter at the Sub-district Level of Politics? Evidence from Tehsils in Andhra Pradesh

Fragmentation and decline in India's state assemblies: A review, 1967-2007

Tracing activity in 15 Indian state assemblies from 1967 to 2007, we find that overall legislative activity declined but there was also considerable variation across states. States with large electoral constituencies and politically fragmented assemblies showed the worst performance, which suggests a...

Mired in Reservations: The Path-Dependent History of Electoral Quotas in India

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