Book Review: Mukulika Banerjee. Why India Votes?

AuthorGilles Verniers
Published date01 June 2015
Date01 June 2015
DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1177/2321023015575238
Published BySage Publications, Inc.
Book Reviews 139
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Aseema Sinha
Claremont McKenna College, California, USA
E-mail: sinhaaseema7@gmail.com
Mukulika Banerjee.Why India Votes?New Delhi: Routledge. 2014. 286 pages. `495.
DOI: 10.1177/2321023015575238
India’s democratic institutions have been pilloried in recent years. All available surveys probing the
esteem in which citizens hold their elected representatives and political parties reveal how critical Indians
are of their political class. Yet participation in elections has never been so high. The recent 2014 general
elections saw a record 68 per cent turnout, more than most European democracies with similar
non-obligatory voting systems. Women’s...

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