TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kapur,Devesh
AU  - Vaishnav,Milan
TI  - Costs of democracy : : political finance in India 
SN  - 9780199487271 (hardback)
U1  - 324.254 COS 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Campaign funds
KW  - India
KW  - Congresses
N1  - 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.
N2  - 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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