The decline of India's parliament

Rubinoff, Arthur G.

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“…The opposition by 1971 was divided and had lost its dynamism. Rubinoff (1998) sums up these developments by stating that constitutional equilibrium got disturbed during Indira Gandhi’s tenure as the Prime Minister. Indira Gandhi distorted Indian federalism by dictating politics in the states from New Delhi and all institutions of governance; parliament, being no exception, declined swiftly through the years after Emergency.…”

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“…Scholars working on Indian parliament (Kashyap, 1989; Kapur and Mehta, 2006; Rubinoff, 1998; Shourie, 2007; Surya Prakash, 1995) have long called attention to this decline in both quantitative and qualitative terms. Though most commentators have differences in opinion on the extent of decline of the Indian parliament, they share a striking resemblance in attributing reasons in post-1989 politics in India.…”

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Making Sense of the House: Explaining the Decline of the Indian Parliament amidst Democratization

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Tripathi

2013

Studies in Indian Politics

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Although the Indian Parliament has witnessed progressive democratization in terms of representation of various sections of society, it has declined as an effective institution of accountability. Unlike in Western democracies, the decline of Indian parliament is not due to strengthening of the executive. Ironically both the executive and the parliament in India have remained weak during the ‘democratic upsurge’ era, while some non-parliamentary institutions have succeeded in asserting their autonomy. We find that existing literature on Indian parliament fails in explaining the paradox of declining parliamentary performance amidst its democratization. In this article, we highlight five such paradoxes. We bring in political parties as the main explanatory variable and argue that the changing character of political parties during the ‘democratic upsurge’ era in India lies at the heart of this debate: the emergence of new players representing sectional interests though increased representation of various sections of society, yet adversarial politics among these parties led to parliament’s decline.

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Making Sense of the House: Explaining the Decline of the Indian Parliament amidst Democratization

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Tripathi

2013

Studies in Indian Politics

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“…A first-past-the-post electoral system without proportional representation and a fragmented opposition prolonged Congress dominance (Rubinoff, 1990). It was able to produce majority governments with a plurality of the vote (Rubinoff, 1998b). Goa belatedly entered this political system on 19 December 1961.…”

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‘How Different Are Goa’s Politics?’

Rubinoff

2013

Studies in Indian Politics

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This article explores how Goa’s politics have evolved in conjunction with national politics. It finds that there has been an evolution from communal regional party government dominated by the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) to the supremacy of two national parties—the Indian National Congress (INC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)—that now dominate the politics of the state, while the situation in New Delhi has moved from national party supremacy to the rise of regional parties at the expense of national institutions. In that sense Goa’s politics continue to be at variance from the national pattern. However, its pattern of unstable coalitions and pervasive defections resembles the national pattern.

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“…In the Lower House, in 2007 alone, disruptions cost 128 hours of parliamentary sitting time(Spary 2010: 338). Such parliamentary communicative disasters have been dubbed symptomatic of the decline of India's political institutions(Rubinoff 1998), and the "disease of democracy"(Chatterjee 2007).29 Unilateral, top-down communication is the general rule in families and households, where superiors give directives and inferiors receive instruction. When dialogue does occur, it often provokes conflict that is frequently accompanied by shouting matches or even the use of physical violence.…”

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A Secret in the Oxford Sense: Thieves and the Rhetoric of Mystification in Western India

Piliavsky

2011

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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Common sense commodifies the secret, alienating the value of its content from its social context. But a secret perfectly kept dies in its circle of initiates. Few secrets, however, are dead on arrival, since their seduction lies precisely in their revelation. Most things said to be hidden are in fact nurtured through the processes of calculated concealment, allusion, and revelation, the secrets propagating themselves through circles of conspiracy, rumor, and gossip. As Tim Jenkins observed, “What is concealed, and the reasons for its concealment, serve to distract attention from the dynamic of the secret: what at first sight appears to be static and indeed dead, possessed by and known to only a few, kept in some dark place, in fact has a life and movement of its own; the secret propagates itself through a structure of secret and betrayal” (1999: 225–26).

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The decline of India's parliament

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

Making Sense of the House: Explaining the Decline of the Indian Parliament amidst Democratization

Making Sense of the House: Explaining the Decline of the Indian Parliament amidst Democratization

‘How Different Are Goa’s Politics?’

A Secret in the Oxford Sense: Thieves and the Rhetoric of Mystification in Western India

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