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Aug 15, 2022 · Today marks 75 years since India emerged from British rule. That freedom began with bloodshed, the partition of Colonial India into two new nations and mass migration across their shared border ...
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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...
It said India had become an "electoral autocracy". And last month, India, described as a "flawed democracy", slipped two places to 53rd position in the latest Democracy Index published by The ...
Jun 20, 2023 · Organizations that measure democracies have concluded that India’s democratic record has worsened. Freedom House has down-graded India to ‘partly-free ’ status. India has fallen from 27 in ...
Jun 5, 2024 · By doing so, he would ensure that India’s government was stable—and he would usher in a new sort of Indian politics, capable of bringing about the reforms needed to ensure India’s ...
Apr 22, 2024 · India steps into these elections deeply polarized and divided. The country of 1.4 billion people has nearly 970 million registered voters. This election will also be the world’s most expensive ...
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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 ...
