The 2013 Karnataka Assembly Outcome: Government Performance and Party Organization Matters

Sandeep Shastri
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Sandeep Shastri: Sandeep Shastri, Pro Vice Chancellor, Jain University, Bangalore & National Coordinator, Lokniti Network

Studies in Indian Politics, 2013, vol. 1, issue 2, 135-152

Abstract: This article assesses the outcome of state assembly elections in Karnataka held in 2013. Extensively using the Lokniti- Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi Pre-Poll Survey data, the article concludes that the verdict was more an unequivocal indictment of the state government rather than a pro-Congress vote. A Congress victory in the state was essentially the channelizing of an anti-incumbency vote. The article also makes out the case that the vote for a party is often a function of the voter’s perception of the organizational strength of the party. Mapping electoral developments in the state, the article concludes that a phase of authentic multi-party competition is clearly ushered in by the 2013 electoral verdict.

Keywords: Karnataka; JD(S); Congress; BJP; assembly election (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1177/2321023013509149

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