Election results: Much ado about nothing?
The 72 Lok Sabha seats that these four states represent are a mere 13% of all seats in the lower house of Parliament.
Yearly Archives: 2013
Independent candidates: Party-poopers in disguise?
In our electoral system of first-past-the-post, the probability that an independent will influence the eventual outcome of an election is statistically high
Wharton and Narendra Modi’s missing speech
It is quite evident that nothing has materially changed with Narendra Modi or his actions between the time of the invitation and its subsequent cancellation.
Praveen Chakravarty: Resource Curse or Winner’s Curse ? What’s worse?
Drunk driving is not an argument against driving; the 2G scam alone cannot be an argument against fixed-price resource allocation policy
The myth of the astute voter
A close analysis of the Tamil Nadu Assembly election results shows that there is no marked difference in the voting pattern