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Apr 15, 2024 · As India goes to the polls in 2024, this paper examines the interplay between these two narratives, or more specifically, what India’s status as the world’s largest democracy means for its global role and relations with the West. It does so by analysing how the changing nature of India’s national identity impacts the country’s foreign ...
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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...
Apr 15, 2024 · Speaking in 2005, India’s then prime minister, Manmohan Singh, noted: ‘our experience of more than 50 years of democratic rule demonstrates how democracy is a most powerful tool to successfully overcome the challenge of development’. 8. Narendra Modi echoed this narrative at the 2023 Summit for Democracy:
Apr 15, 2024 · It examines what India’s status as the world’s largest democracy means for its international role, for its claim to leadership of the Global South, and for its relations with the West; and discusses how the changing nature of India’s national identity and its long-standing commitment to ‘strategic autonomy’ – along with an emphasis on promoting good governance through digital ...
This book has tried to make sense of the political trajectory of India from populism to ethnic democracy and authoritarianism under Narendra Modi, a journey of less than ten years. Its starting point lies in Hindu nationalism, an ideology based on a sense of vulnerability and prejudice vis-à-vis so-called threatening Others, including the ...
bringing. Modi rose from humble beginnings to lead the world’s most-populous democracy.2 Abe, on the other hand, boasts a distinguished political lineage as the grandson and grandnephew of two former Japanese prime ministers and the son of a former foreign minister. In fact, Modi rode to victory by crushing Rahul Gandhi’s dynastic aspirations.
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Nov 28, 2021 · Drew Angerer/Getty Images. November 28, 2021, 6:00 AM. Since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his second term in 2019, he has pursued policies that have corroded the country’s democracy ...
