Reforming India's Party Financing and Election Expenditure Laws

Gowda, M. V. Rajeev; Sridharan, Eswaran

doi:10.1089/elj.2011.0131

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“…6 It is widely acknowledged that political corruption is very common (Bussell, 2012;Gowda and Sridharan, 2012;Kapur and Vaishnav, 2011). Furthermore, as the examples above make clear, it happens for several reasons.…”

Section: Survey Experiments Designmentioning

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Punishing personal and electoral corruption: Experimental evidence from India

Weschle

2016

Research & Politics

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A growing literature examines the effect of corruption on political behavior. However, little attention has been paid so far to the fact that politicians engage in it for various reasons and with different welfare consequences. In this article, I argue that voters judge corrupt politicians differently depending on what the money is used for. I show results from a survey experiment in India in which respondents heard about a politician who accepted money for a political favor. One treatment group was told that the politician used the money to personally enrich himself (personal corruption), while the other group was informed that he used it to buy votes (electoral corruption). Respondents who received the vote buying treatment were clearly and consistently less likely to agree with a series of potential punishments. This suggests that the overall welfare consequences of corrupt exchanges are an important factor when voters decide how to judge offending politicians.

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Section: Survey Experiments Designmentioning

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Punishing personal and electoral corruption: Experimental evidence from India

Weschle

2016

Research & Politics

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“…Parties spend huge resources for campaigns to win the elections (Gowda & Sridharan, 2012). Misusing the resources to attract the voters hinders the fair periodic election of any democratic culture.…”

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Impact of Displacement on Civil and Political Rights of the Internally Displaced Persons in Dolakha District of Nepal

Karki¹

2019

J. APF Command & Staff Coll.

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The explanatory paper discusses the impact of displacement on the civil and political rights of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Dolakha District of Nepal with special reference to the displacement caused by the 2015 Nepal Earthquake. The discussion has focused on studying the answer for whether the disaster-induced IDPs enjoyed the civil and political rights particularly during the Federal, Provincial and Local elections in Nepal. The findings are based on the primary data collected from the respondents, IDPs and the people’s representatives, who are the key aspect of the real time empirical familiarity, and of course supported by secondary data. The main issue in the paper is whether the IDPs could enjoy the civil and political rights during the tri-phases of election in 2017 in Dolakha District of Nepal, and the claim is that some of the civil and political rights of the IDPs were unconstructively impacted because of their status of being displaced.

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“…This was also reflected in the increasing participation of criminals in electoral politics, as political parties preferred wealthy candidates with 'deep pockets' to finance their own campaigns. The growing reliance of informal private funding in the absence of state funding also meant that parties and politicians raised funds from businesses informally in return for discretionary contracts and regulatory favours (Gowda and Sridharan, 2012).…”

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Deals and Development

Werker

Pritchett

2017

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Reforming India's Party Financing and Election Expenditure Laws

Cited by 37 publications

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Punishing personal and electoral corruption: Experimental evidence from India

Punishing personal and electoral corruption: Experimental evidence from India

Impact of Displacement on Civil and Political Rights of the Internally Displaced Persons in Dolakha District of Nepal

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