Fixing India’s fractured polity

Public funding of elections has the potential to curb the distortions and excesses in our political system

Prior to 1989, India’s party system produced single-party majority governments based only on plurality of the vote. Since then, over the course of the past six elections, it has produced hung parliaments and multiparty minority and/or coalition governments. This fragmentation of the Indian party system has been widely noted.

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