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January-March, 2017

Date: Apr 27, 2017

                                                                                                                             JOURNAL PDF ...

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Conditional State Funding of Elections

Date: Apr 28, 2017

MOTHER OF ALL CHALLENGES When India won freedom in 1947, many Western pundits professed that either democracy will die out or the country will disintegrate. Their doubts returned with every famine, upheaval or catastrophe. But we routinely overcame all our troubles and the democracy not just survived, it thrived. A big part of our self-belief comes from the structures we built– like an ever-evolving apparatus of holding elections, our trademark federalism where centre-state relations a...

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Lessons From Global Experiences

Date: Apr 28, 2017

CAN INDIA LEARN FROM OTHERS?                                                                       Dr Niranjan Sahoo and Rajendran Nair Karakulam* Democracy costs a lot of money. To fight elections and to run routine political activities, parties and candidates seek donations from all possible sources including illegal ...

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Political Parties And Public Funding

Date: Apr 29, 2017

Ensuring a Cleaner Polity                                                                                  M. V. Rajeev Gowda and Varun Santhosh* Efforts to reform and improve India's electoral processes must build on some central axioms. Healthy democracies require vibrant political pa...

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Who Should Pay For Elections?

Date: Apr 29, 2017

The Debate Continues                                                                                                             Anumeha* In India, there is no direct state funding though the political parties enjoy certain in...

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Challenges In Campaign Finance

Date: Apr 29, 2017

Setting the Agenda for Ensuring Transparency                                                                                                          Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Anil Verma* Elections in India are a hugely expensive affair....

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Book Review

Date: May 01, 2017

                                                                                                              Shambhu Ghatak* An Alternative Philosophy of Development: From Economism to Human Well-being Author: Birendra...

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Use Of Infotech In Transparency

Date: May 01, 2017

ICT AND INDIAN ELECTIONS                                                                                            Gurumurthy Kasinathan (Guru)* “Increasing cost of elections leads to unethical, illegal and even mafia provided electoral funding, corruption, c...

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Common Cause Updates

Date: May 01, 2017

Supreme Court: Previous Interventions: Challenging the Ad-hocism in the Appointment and Functioning of the CBI Director: Common Cause had filed a petition in the Supreme Court praying for issuance of an appropriate writ directing the Union of India to appoint a regular director of CBI as per procedure established by law and for quashing the appointment of the interim/acting director. The petition pointed out that even though the central government was fully aware that the Director CBI Anil...

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