Modern communication technologies can be the potential centripetal force that unify voters across states. AAP has benefitted from this in Punjab.
The high costs of not voting for a likely winner enables a ‘politics of fear’
Over the past few weeks, as is the norm, pre-election opinion polls for the state elections have been published widely across print, television and digital media.
The US may want to import Indian election systems, but India needs to import genuine decentralisation from US
US conducts its presidential election with 50 different rules for 50 states. As C. Rajagopalachari had said, uniformity is not unity.
