Louise Tillin, Milan Vaishnav, Andy Robaina
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The Rise and Resilience Of Fiscal Transfers Amidst Party System Change, June, 1, 2023
The objective of this series is to engage analytically with the dynamics of contemporary federalism in India and provide a framework within which to debate the institutional and political solutions to challenges in centre-state relations as they unfold.
About the Author
Director and Senior Fellow, South Asia Program
Milan Vaishnav is a senior fellow and director of the South Asia Program and the host of the Grand Tamasha podcast at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His primary research focus is the political economy of India, and he examines issues such as corruption and governance, state capacity, distributive politics, and electoral behavior. He also conducts research on the Indian diaspora.
- Delimitation After Defeat: India’s Unfinished Debate Over RepresentationPaper
- India and a Changing Global Order: Foreign Policy in the Trump 2.0 EraResearch
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