Costs of democracy : political finance in India / edited by Devesh Kapur & Milan Vaishnav.

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Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2018Description: xiii, 311 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780199487271 (hardback)

Subject(s):

Campaign funds -- India -- Congresses

DDC classification:

23 324.254 COS 012290

Contents:

1.Political Finance in a Developing Democracy The Case of India / Milan Vaishnav 2.Money in Elections The Role of Personal Wealth in Election Outcomes / Neelanjan Sircar 3.Builders, Politicians, and Election Finance / Milan Vaishnav 4.Navigating Fiscal Constraints Dalit Parties and Electoral Politics in Tamil Nadu / Michael A. Collins 5.Money and Votes Following Flows through Mumbai and Bihar / Jeffrey Witsoe 6.What Costs So Much in Indian Elections? Intuitions from Recent Electoral Campaigns in Mumbai / Simon Chauchard 7.Whose Money, Whose Influence? Multilevel Politics and Campaign Finance in India / Jennifer Bussell.

Summary: If it impossible to conceive of democracies sans elections, why is it impossible to imagine elections without the flood of money in politics? How does every general election in India get more expensive than the last one? Stepping into the mucky terrain to find out what enables the average Indian vote to have a price, Costs of Democracy opens readers' eyes to the opaque and enigmatic ways in which money flows through the political heart of the world's largest democracy. 0In the first in-depth investigation drawing from extensive fieldwork on political campaigns, unique surveys, and creative and innovative data analysis, the contributions chase and unpack the institutional and regulatory context governing the flow of money in politics; the sources of political finance; the need for such large spending; how money flow, operate, and interact with different levels of government.

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Includes index.

1.Political Finance in a Developing Democracy
The Case of India / Milan Vaishnav
2.Money in Elections
The Role of Personal Wealth in Election Outcomes / Neelanjan Sircar
3.Builders, Politicians, and Election Finance / Milan Vaishnav
4.Navigating Fiscal Constraints
Dalit Parties and Electoral Politics in Tamil Nadu / Michael A. Collins
5.Money and Votes
Following Flows through Mumbai and Bihar / Jeffrey Witsoe
6.What Costs So Much in Indian Elections?
Intuitions from Recent Electoral Campaigns in Mumbai / Simon Chauchard
7.Whose Money, Whose Influence? Multilevel Politics and Campaign Finance in India / Jennifer Bussell.

If it impossible to conceive of democracies sans elections, why is it impossible to imagine elections without the flood of money in politics? How does every general election in India get more expensive than the last one? Stepping into the mucky terrain to find out what enables the average Indian vote to have a price, Costs of Democracy opens readers' eyes to the opaque and enigmatic ways in which money flows through the political heart of the world's largest democracy. 0In the first in-depth investigation drawing from extensive fieldwork on political campaigns, unique surveys, and creative and innovative data analysis, the contributions chase and unpack the institutional and regulatory context governing the flow of money in politics; the sources of political finance; the need for such large spending; how money flow, operate, and interact with different levels of government.

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