Measuring Electoral Competitiveness: With Application to the Indian States
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- Bharatee Bhusana, Ferris, J Stephen Dash & Stanley L. Winer, 2018. "Measuring Electoral Competitiveness: With Application to the Indian States," CESifo Working Paper Series 7216, CESifo.
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Keywords
electoral competitiveness; effective number of parties and Tpartyness; volatility adjusted vote margins; asymmetry adjusted safe seats; Indian states; caste and class;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
- D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2018-10-01 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2018-10-01 (Positive Political Economics)
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