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Populist rule is bad for democracy, yet in country after country, populists are being voted into
office. Populism and Patronage shows that the populists such as Indira Gandhi and …

This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences
development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a …

We study the effect of Hindu-Muslim riots on election results in India. We combine data on
geo-coded riots with data on state elections and on demographics and public goods …

Religion has not been a popular target for economic analysis. Yet the tools of economics
can offer deep insights into how religious groups compete, deliver social services, and reach …

Does secular party incumbency affect religious violence? Existing theory is ambiguous. On
the one hand, religiously motivated militants might target areas that vote secularists into …

I examine how the historical legacies of inter-ethnic complementarity and competition
interact with contemporary electoral competition in sha** patterns of ethnic violence …

Religious division formed the basis for the subcontinent's partition and has continued to be a
major social cleavage in local relations. Yet remarkably religious parties have rarely been …

This paper employs an instrumental variables strategy to identify the effect of party ideology
on policy outcomes. Exogenous variation in party representation is generated by the …

Do incidents of ethnic polarization influence voter behavior? I address this question through
the case study of India, the world's largest functional democracy. Specifically, I test whether …