Arbeitspapier
Enfranchisement, Political Participation and Political Competition: Evidence from Colonial India
We examine how political participation and political competition are shaped by two class-based extensions of the franchise in 20th-century India. Creating a new dataset of district level political outcomes between 1921 and 1957, we find that the partial franchise extension of 1935 resulted in significantly lower incumbency advantage, while the institution of universal adult suffrage in 1950 resulted in increased candidacy. Both these franchise extensions resulted in decreased voter turnout rates, suggesting that newly enfranchised voters are less engaged in the political process.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13476
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Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: Asia including Middle East
Capitalist Systems: Political Economy
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democratization
colonial rule
India
franchise extension
political participation
political competition
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Cassan, Guilhem
Iyer, Lakshmi
Mirza, Rinchan Ali
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
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2020
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- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:46 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Cassan, Guilhem
- Iyer, Lakshmi
- Mirza, Rinchan Ali
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2020