How can electoral success be sustained by a ‘lagging development’ regime?

Arup Maharatna (arupmaha@yahoo.com)

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Abstract: Left coalition ruled West Bengal for uninterrupted three decades. The study reveals that despite ruling for such a long period the state still lags behind in eradication of problems like poverty, as compared to other Indian states. This paper seeks a clue to this by comprehensively evaluating West Bengal’s relative performance in demographic and socio-economic transformation. Still the party enjoys a considerable level of support as far as electoral gains are concerned.

Keywords: west bengal; left; poverty; electoral gains (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-06
Note: Institutional Papers
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