Efficiency Consequences of Affirmative Action in Politics: Evidence from India
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Keywords
electoral competition; reservation; public goods; Gram Panchayat;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2017-11-12 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-EXP-2017-11-12 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-POL-2017-11-12 (Positive Political Economics)
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