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Aug 1, 2024 · The outcome of India’s elections this year represent an opportunity for the world’s largest country to regain its democracy, but that outcome will depend on mobilization by Indians and an ...
According to the view that democracy requires economic development, a common culture and high levels of literacy, India’s claim to be democratic has rested largely on the fact that it holds elections, has universal suffrage, and transfer of power occurs without trouble.
15 March 2021. Soutik Biswas. India correspondent. Getty Images. Mr Modi's government has been accused of targeting minorities. India's democracy is taking a rankings battering these days....
- What’s in A Name?
- Stable Rights and Declining Liberties
- Can Indian Democracy Be Saved?
To evaluate India’s democratic downgrading, it is first necessary to define democracy, both because adjudicating the debate over India’s democratic decline rests on conceptual clarity and because democracy undoubtedly connotes normative legitimacy. Democracy is a concept that instantiates a system of government that is “of the people, by the people...
India’s democracy was never very high-quality. The formal exercise of autonomous, competitive elections with a broad range of civil liberties—while it did translate into a mass poverty-alleviation program and the world’s largest affirmative-action program—always had plenty of shortcomings. But democracy also had a built-in autocorrect feature, whic...
Democracy in India, as elsewhere in the world, is not today dying through a military coup or the dramatic, coordinated mass arrests of opponents. Instead, autocrats have learned to talk democratically and walk autocratically, maintaining a legal façade of democracy while harassing opposition and shrinking space for loyal dissent. While India’s form...
- Justin Daniels
Apr 15, 2024 · In pursuing a more low-key approach to democracy promotion, India’s primary objective is to uphold the principle of respecting states’ sovereignty and maintaining cordial relations with other countries – both democracies and non-democracies – in the Global South.
Jun 7, 2024 · Some international commentators have described it as the beginning of re-democratisation in India. Indian politics and society now promise to be a churning — it remains to be seen how it will be reformed.
Jun 14, 2021 · Democracy in India is strong and entrenched, especially at the state level. A bigger problem is the lack of a competent political party that could challenge the BJP on the national level. The...
