Economic Policies vs. Identity Politics: The Rise of a Right-wing Nationalist Party in India

Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee and Sujata Visaria

No 2023-12, Monash Economics Working Papers from Monash University, Department of Economics

Abstract: As in many other parts of the world, India has witnessed a surge in the popularity of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a right wing nationalist party. This paper examines the respective roles of economic policy and "identity politics" for the sharp rise in support for BJP in a region where it had a negligible vote share until 2014. Using household level panel data from

Keywords: clientelism; identity politics; rightwing nationalism; West Bengal; federalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H31 H42 H75 P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-06-01
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