Voter Turnout in the Indian States: An Empirical Analysis

Diwakar, Rekha

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“…By 2009, participation in elections had stabilised, with a turnout rate of 58.8%, in line with rates from any of the elections over the previous 20 years (Kumar :48; Palshikar and Kumar :5412). In the state of Tamil Nadu, however, where this study is located, rates are even higher, with a mean voter turnout of 64.4% for 1951–2004 (Diwakar :83). Furthermore, as Figure shows, Tamil Nadu has seen significant increases in electoral participation, which in recent years have exceeded all‐India levels (Kumar :48, Economic and Political Weekly :138, Figure ).…”

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“…Despite the substantial insights they offer, election studies have been critiqued for what Lama‐Rewal (:2) calls their focus “on the ‘mechanics’ more than on the ‘substance’ of representative democracy”. Studies of elections and voting tend to explore the processes, trends and patterns of the electoral process rather than taking voting as an entry into understanding democracy and citizenship itself (Chandra ; Diwakar ; Kumar ). Ethnographic approaches, by contrast, are well suited to the study of the meanings people attach to voting as a key aspect of democracy as well as to an exploration of voting as a window onto culturally specific understandings of rights, duties and citizenship (Banerjee :1556; Lama‐Rewal :4).…”

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Why Indians Vote: Reflections on Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy from a Tamil Nadu Village

Carswell

Neve

2014

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This paper contributes to an empirical and theoretical understanding of democracy and political participation in India through an ethnographic study of the meanings attached to voting in rural Tamil Nadu. Based on a study of voting in a rural constituency during the 2009 national elections, the paper explores the variety of motivations that compel people to vote. It explores how voting is informed by popular understandings of rights and duties as citizens, programmatic policies and their local implementation, commitment to caste and party loyalties, and authority of charismatic leaders. The paper explores the roots of the political consciousness and rights awareness that underpin high levels of electoral participation. It suggests that elections form unique moments that allow ordinary people to experience an individual sense of citizenship and of democracy itself while at the same time allowing them to pursue projects of recognition, respect and assertion as members of communities. It is precisely this dual feature that makes voting so enduringly attractive to India's contemporary electorate.

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Why Indians Vote: Reflections on Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy from a Tamil Nadu Village

Carswell

Neve

2014

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“…In an election, reputation of political parties but also that of their leaders will influence the voter behavior (Worcestor et al, 2005) and India has been witnessing an increased voter turnout over time Diwakar (, ) The reputation of an organization and that of its leader are believed to be linked in causality, implying that managing and presenting the leader are valid ways to manage the reputation of the organization (Gaines‐Ross, 2003; Laurence, 2004). Personality image coupled with the foundational ideological principles of corrupt free governance of AAP triggered mass acceptance.…”

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An exploratory case study focusing on the creation, and development of a new political brand: The case of Aam Aadmi Party

Gupta

2019

Journal of Public Affairs

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In the backdrop of India's rising prominence in BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), understanding of its political environment, electoral competition, and constituent parties with their political ideologies contesting to form government attracts immense interest from the researchers in political science, political marketing, and public policy. Although literatures in political marketing are more than two decades mostly carried out in developed democratic systems like the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, India as a posttransition democracy received relatively less attention. The article has been conceptualized in the context of 2014 Indian general elections Lok Sabha 2014 as an attempt to study application of political marketing principles in a cross‐cultural democracy. The author has probed the emergence of new political party Aam Aadmi Party riding on the success of Janlokpal (civil society movement), the marketing approach used by Aam Aadmi Party, essentially positioning and branding strategies, during the national elections and party institutionalization. Research strategy followed secondary research of published data for examining the new party creation from a marketing perspective.

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“…Likewise, studying the 2002 and 2006 Hungarian parliamentary elections, Simonovits (2012) notes that a 5% increase in the margin of victory in the first round results in a 1-percentage point decrease in turnout when controlling for other relevant variables in the turnout function. Finally, in a study on subnational-level turnout in India, Diwakar (2008) finds that a 1-percentage point increase in the difference of the vote share between the winner and the second-placed party leads to a 10.7% decrease in turnout.…”

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When Do Close Elections Matter for Higher Turnout? Gauging the Impact of the Interaction Between Electoral Competitiveness and District Magnitude

Stockemer

2014

Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties

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A conventional rational choice perspective assumes a positive relationship between close elections and higher turnout because of the increased probability that few votes might actually matter for the election outcome. However, this hypothesis should only hold in electoral districts where one or few candidates are elected. In contrast, close elections should have less of an impact in districts where many members are elected because these districts are characterized by a proportional translation of votes into seats. Testing the foregoing logic, this article evaluates the interactive influence between the closeness of an election and the district magnitude on turnout. The results of the multivariate regression analysis, which includes data for over 600 elections across the globe, support the idea that close elections boost electoral participation in districts with one or few elected members, but not in districts with many elected representatives.

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Voter Turnout in the Indian States: An Empirical Analysis

Cited by 35 publications

References 40 publications

Why Indians Vote: Reflections on Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy from a Tamil Nadu Village

Why Indians Vote: Reflections on Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy from a Tamil Nadu Village

An exploratory case study focusing on the creation, and development of a new political brand: The case of Aam Aadmi Party

When Do Close Elections Matter for Higher Turnout? Gauging the Impact of the Interaction Between Electoral Competitiveness and District Magnitude

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