CASI Deep Dive: Eswaran Sridharan on the 2024 Elections and India’s Unique Coalition Politics
Eswaran Sridharan & Rohan Venkat
December 23, 2024
In this issue of India in Transition, CASI Managing Editor Rohan Venkat speaks to Eswaran Sridharan (UPIASI) about the results of the 2024 general elections, the “beginnings of a loose bipolarity” between two big national blocks in India’s Parliament, and how the strategies used in pre-electoral coalitions make India rather unique and particularly different from the European nations that form the bulk of coalition literature in political science.
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