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Elections, lobbying and economic policies: an empirical investigation across Indian states
Constitutional Political Economy Pub Date : 2021-11-12 , DOI: 10.1007/s10602-021-09353-7
Deepti Kohli 1
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This paper utilizes a balanced panel data-set comprising of data on 29 Indian states and Union Territories for the period 2003-2017 for both Legislative Assembly and Parliamentary elections at the state-level to address the following questions. First, whether an incumbent government manoeuvers fiscal policies for opportunistic gains, especially in light of tight electoral competition? Second, whether ideologically distinct or partisan electoral groups exhibit different economic policy positions during an election term? And third, whether clientelist practices undertaken by political candidates or parties contesting elections significantly translate into biasing policy choices in favour of their patrons? The analysis has been done for two categories of policy variables: expenditure and deficit parameters of the incumbent state government. The regression estimations include various political controls such as, electoral competition between political parties, voter participation rate, government’s ideological leaning, centre-state alignment and government incumbency. Apart from these, the estimations also control for political lobbying by using the data on monetary contributions provided to different political parties. The results for both Legislative Assembly and state-level Parliamentary elections provide remarkable evidence in favour of a significant presence of various interest groups, lobbying and monetary transfers at work in Indian politics, especially via a strong and organized industrial sector, which trickles down to influence the numerous policy positions of distinct political parties.



中文翻译:

选举、游说和经济政策:印度各邦的实证调查

本文利用一个平衡的面板数据集,该数据集包含 29 个印度邦和联邦领土 2003-2017 年期间州级立法议会和议会选举的数据,以解决以下问题。首先,现任政府是否为了机会主义收益而操纵财政政策,尤其是在激烈的选举竞争中?第二,意识形态不同或党派不同的选举团体在选举期间是否表现出不同的经济政策立场?第三,政治候选人或参加选举的政党采取的附庸做法是否会显着转化为偏向于有利于其赞助人的政策选择?对两类政策变量进行了分析:现任州政府的支出和赤字参数。回归估计包括各种政治控制,例如政党之间的选举竞争、选民参与率、政府的意识形态倾向、中央国家联盟和政府在位。除此之外,估计还通过使用提供给不同政党的货币捐款数据来控制政治游说。立法议会和州级议会选举的结果都提供了显着的证据,支持各种利益集团的大量存在、游说和货币转移在印度政治中发挥作用,特别是通过强大而有组织的工业部门,这会逐渐影响到影响不同政党的众多政策立场。政党之间的选举竞争、选民参与率、政府意识形态倾向、中央与国家的联盟和政府在位。除此之外,估计还通过使用提供给不同政党的货币捐款数据来控制政治游说。立法议会和州级议会选举的结果都提供了显着的证据,支持各种利益集团的大量存在、游说和货币转移在印度政治中发挥作用,特别是通过强大而有组织的工业部门,这会逐渐影响到影响不同政党的众多政策立场。政党之间的选举竞争、选民参与率、政府意识形态倾向、中央与国家的联盟和政府在位。除此之外,估计还通过使用提供给不同政党的货币捐款数据来控制政治游说。立法议会和州级议会选举的结果都提供了显着的证据,支持各种利益集团的大量存在、游说和货币转移在印度政治中发挥作用,特别是通过强大而有组织的工业部门,这会逐渐影响到影响不同政党的众多政策立场。通过使用提供给不同政党的货币捐款数据,这些估计还控制了政治游说。立法议会和州级议会选举的结果都提供了显着的证据,支持各种利益集团的大量存在、游说和货币转移在印度政治中发挥作用,特别是通过强大而有组织的工业部门,这会逐渐影响到影响不同政党的众多政策立场。通过使用提供给不同政党的货币捐款数据,这些估计还控制了政治游说。立法议会和州级议会选举的结果都提供了显着的证据,支持各种利益集团的大量存在、游说和货币转移在印度政治中发挥作用,特别是通过强大而有组织的工业部门,这会逐渐影响到影响不同政党的众多政策立场。

更新日期:2021-11-13
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