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How are Votes Bought? An Empirical Examination of Transactional Politics in a Developing Economy
Although it is widely believed that votebuying is pervasive in Indian elections, understandably there is limited evidence for it. Our survey of over 250 villages, timed soon after a state election in Central India, suggests that votebuying is common, although not universal. We combine village-level variation in caste ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2020/visaria-how-are-votes-bought-an-empirical-examination-of-transactional-politics-in-a-developing-economy
Who Wants To Be A Politician? Running for Office in West Bengal Panchayats
Politicians in developing countries are typically considered to be rent-seeking, self-serving, and corrupt. The "negative selection hypothesis" suggests that it is the inherently dishonest that seek to enter office, in the expectation of earning political rent. Alternatively, the "positive selection ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2020/chaudhuri-who-wants-to-be-a-politician-running-for-office-in-west-bengal-panchayats
Is China a democracy? A long (and better) answer
SHSS Dean and IEMS Faculty Associate Kellee TSAI featured in Inkstone in an article that discussing China as a democratic society. “Although the CCP monopolizes political power, actual implementation of policies can be decentralized and vary throughout the country [...] There is a certain degree ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2018/tsai-is-china-a-democracy-a-long-and-better-answer
Xi Is Just Getting Started After China’s Biggest Government Shakeup in Years
The message from the massive government shakeup completed on March 20 in Beijing is clear: Chinese President Xi Jinping is just getting started. China’s national parliament gave its rubber stamp of approval to a dizzying overhaul that will reverberate through the world’s second-largest economy ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2018/zweig-bloomberg-xi-is-just-getting-started-after-china-s-biggest-government-shakeup-in-years
Dissent on Aadhaar - Reetika Khera (IIM, Ahmedabad)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJjF2ZPeeCg
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