Why the voter’s wise

Saubhik Chakrabarti Tags : incumbency, inflation, Economic data, voting behaviour Posted: Thursday , Dec 11, 2008 at 2246 hrs

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Even from this very limited look at economic data it appears that questions like why incumbency can work and why inflation doesn’t necessarily hurt incumbents may appear more amenable to concrete answers than when seen from purely election-time political analysis. Rigorous analysis can give us far better clues to voter behaviour.

India’s many talented economists should venture into this underexploited research area: the much-celebrated but little-understood Indian voter.

saubhik.chakrabarti@expressindia.com

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