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Article: The Fulfilment of Election Pledges in India
Title | The Fulfilment of Election Pledges in India |
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Keywords | election pledges identity politics India political parties promissory representation |
Issue Date | 2024 |
Citation | Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2024, v. 54, n. 1, p. 133-151 How to Cite? |
Abstract | The central idea of promissory representation is that parties make promises to voters during election campaigns and then fulfil those promises after elections if they have the power to do so. Until now, most comparative research on the making, breaking, and keeping of parties’ campaign promises, or “election pledges,” has considered Western democracies. The present study examines pledge fulfilment in India, focusing on pledges made by the two main Indian parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Indian National Congress at the 2009 and 2014 national parliamentary elections. The evidence indicates that election pledges are prominent parts of electoral discourse and policymaking in India, as they are in Western countries. However, the form of pledge making and keeping is characterised by the distinctive features of Indian politics, notably the prevalence of valence politics on socio-economic issues and identity politics on issues relating to religion, castes and tribes, and gender. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/345273 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.0 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.785 |
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dc.contributor.author | Adhikari, Pankaj | - |
dc.contributor.author | Mariam, Sania | - |
dc.contributor.author | Thomson, Robert | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-15T09:26:19Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-08-15T09:26:19Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2024 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2024, v. 54, n. 1, p. 133-151 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0047-2336 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/345273 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The central idea of promissory representation is that parties make promises to voters during election campaigns and then fulfil those promises after elections if they have the power to do so. Until now, most comparative research on the making, breaking, and keeping of parties’ campaign promises, or “election pledges,” has considered Western democracies. The present study examines pledge fulfilment in India, focusing on pledges made by the two main Indian parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Indian National Congress at the 2009 and 2014 national parliamentary elections. The evidence indicates that election pledges are prominent parts of electoral discourse and policymaking in India, as they are in Western countries. However, the form of pledge making and keeping is characterised by the distinctive features of Indian politics, notably the prevalence of valence politics on socio-economic issues and identity politics on issues relating to religion, castes and tribes, and gender. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Contemporary Asia | - |
dc.subject | election pledges | - |
dc.subject | identity politics | - |
dc.subject | India | - |
dc.subject | political parties | - |
dc.subject | promissory representation | - |
dc.title | The Fulfilment of Election Pledges in India | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/00472336.2022.2114101 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85137772746 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 54 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 133 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 151 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1752-7554 | - |