EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are ...

The exuberance among the Congress party’s supporters has much to do with the baseline expectation, which had plummeted after the Bharatiya Janata Party’s thumping victory in December 2023 assembly ...

The intensifying fusion of political and economic power in India is discussed. Employing data on the wealth and background of politicians, it is shown that over the last 20 years, India’s politicians ...

Through a consistent surge in their salience and distinguished by their autonomy, female voters have become an indispensable constituency in Indian electoral democracy in recent decades. Through a ...

India has had a dramatic scale-up in the use of technology for welfare delivery, especially in the direct benefit transfer of cash and in-kind benefits. Technology disintermediates traditional ...

Earlier studies on party ideology in India have identified that party differentiation is either lacking or does not conform to predefined theories. We analysed the differences in the policy proposals ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s election propaganda is surveyed with a focus on the election speeches given by Narendra Modi. The empirical finding is that campaign speeches given by the Prime Minister ...

The formation of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance prior to India’s general elections in 2024 is examined. The dynamics and historical background of pre-electoral coalitions in ...

Moulding the diversity of Indian society into a cohesive nation based on the core values of Hindu nationalism is the main ideological plank of the Bharatiya Janata Party. However, in contrast with the ...

The parliamentary election of 2024 achieved the unusual distinction of delivering both continuity and change. With a majority of seats in the Lok Sabha, the National Democratic Alliance coalition ...

Nations across the world, including India, implement “food import control” measures to foster “food import safety.” In international agri-food trade and economics, food has been a seminal article of ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are ...