Political quotas in India: Perceptions of constituent political representation

Asian Survey

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 373-394

  Jensenius, Francesca Refsum ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)   (United States)

Author keywords

Dalits; India; Quotas; Reservations; Scheduled Castes

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; NATIONAL POLITICS; PERCEPTION; POLITICAL SYSTEM; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

INDIA;

EID: 84860784363     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: 1533838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/as.2012.52.2.373     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. An overview of quotas for minorities can be found in M. Krook and D. O'Brien, "The Politics of Group Representation: Quotas for Women and Minorities Worldwide", Comparative Politics 42:3(2010), pp. 253-72. An updated overview of quotas for women can be found at .
2. CAD, Constituent Assembly Debates: Official Report, vol. 3 (New Delhi: Reprinted by Lok Sabha Secretariat, 1999), p. 331.
3. A few examples that should be mentioned are Esther Duflo and Petia Topalova, "Unappreciated Service: Performance, Perceptions, and Women Leaders in India", unpublished manuscript, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004);
4. Raghabendra Chattopadhyay and Esther Duflo, "Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India", Econometrica 72:5(September 2004), pp. 1409-43;
5. Pranab Bardhan, Dilip Mookherjee, and Monica L. Parra Torrado, "Impact of Political Reservations in West Bengal Local Governments on Anti-Poverty Targeting", Journal of Globalization and Development 1:1 (2010).
6. A good example of this is Alistair McMillan, Standing at the Margins: Representation and Electoral Reservation in India (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
7. The main exception is Rohini Pande, "Can Mandated Political Representation Increase Policy Influence for Disadvantaged Minorities? Theory and Evidence from India", American Economic Review 93:4(2003), pp. 1132-51. (Pubitemid 38808895)
8. The extent of these constituencies is described in the Indian Delimitation report of 1976, available at .
9. Published in the Gazette of India (New Delhi), December 30, 1972.
10. Kanshi Ram, The Chamcha Age-An Era of the Stooges, .
11. More information about the data collection process can be found on the Lokniti website, at .
12. Data from the Election Commission are available in PDF format online, at , and in soft copy, at .
13. Rikhil Bhavnani and Francesca Jensenius, "Constructing Socio-economic Profiles for India's Old Constituencies" (research article in progress).
14. Francesca Refsum Jensenius, "Development from Representation? A Study of Quotas for Lower Caste Groups in India", working paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, September 2011.
15. I used the function Match () in the R-package "Matching" with exact matching on state and closest neighbor matching on the proportion of SCs. This function is described in Jasjeet S. Sekhon, "Multivariate and Propensity Score Matching Software with Automated Balance Optimization: The Matching Package for R", Journal of Statistical Software 42:7(2011), pp. 1-52.