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Majoritarian politics and hate crimes against religious minorities in India, 2009-2018

Using a state-level panel data set on the incidence of hate crimes in India, this paper implements difference in difference (DID) and triple difference in difference (DDD) research designs to estimate the causal impact of the right-wing BJP's win in the 2014 parliamentary elections on hate crimes against religious minorities (Muslims, Christians and Sikhs). Comparing the periods 2009-13 (pre-election) and 2014-18 (post-election), I find that BJP's electoral victory caused an increase in the incidence of hate crimes against religious minorities in India.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2019-14

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
Thema
minorities
hate crimes
electoral outcomes
difference in difference

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Basu, Deepankar
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Massachusetts, Department of Economics
(wo)
Amherst, MA
(wann)
2019

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Basu, Deepankar
  • University of Massachusetts, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2019

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