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Nooruddin, Irfan. "Unstable Politics: Fiscal Space and Electoral Volatility in the Indian States" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40103_index.html>

Nooruddin, I. , 2005-09-01 "Unstable Politics: Fiscal Space and Electoral Volatility in the Indian States" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <APPLICATION/DOWNLOAD>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40103_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: The national Indian party system, after decades of relatively stable one-party party system dominance by the Congress party, has fragmented considerably since the 1990s. At the state level, however, electoral volatility has not increased since the 1990s. In fact, electoral politics in the Indian states have always been characterized by a high degree of electoral volatility, though there remains important variation across states in the extent of volatility experienced. We attribute this volatility to the extent of fiscal space possessed by a state government. Where a government's budget has fiscal space, citizens reward the incumbent parties with their votes at the next elections. However, when fiscal space is constrained, either for exogenous reasons such as economic crises or endogenous reasons such as excessive expenditures or low tax revenues, the ability of the incumbent government to provide such resources is drastically reduced. Citizens therefore have little reason to reward the incumbent government at the polls, and are `available' to opposition politicians and to alternative appeals. Vote-switching ensues and the incumbent government is voted out of the office.

Party Voting in the US Federal System: Does the National Political Context Matter for State Level Elections?

How Media Bias Affects Attitude Change: Studying Individual-Level Effects of Political Commentary on Changing Party Evaluations during the UK Election Campaign in 2005